comparing strings in a case structure

Owen

is it posible to compare strings in a case structure? I have tried with out any luck and resorted to if statments andcomparing the strings with strcomp.

Owen

Mike Green

The only reasonable way to compare strings is with STRCOMP and that's not really workable with a case statement. One option would be to write a separate string lookup routine that returns an integer ordinal number for the string or the starting offset of the string in a table and use that for the case statement. It would be pretty straightforward to have a table of strings, each terminated with a zero byte, probably in a DAT section.