Help with struct

[neillovell]

Hi
How can I put the values
1 , "Letter"
2 , "Letter(small)"
3 , "Tabloid"

etc. in to a struct? I've been asked to create a lookup table that uses bsearch to find the entry with the matching number, and get the string associated.

So...
int Num = 3

// call bsearch
bsearch(Parameters);

returns "Tabloid"

I can't put the data in to the struct. How do I do this? There will be 41 entries.

 

[mlb321]

Hi,

Could you clarify the relationship between 'Num' and 'Parameters' in your post? Are these hard-coded values or will they be loaded at run-time? I'd make it a class that has a Find/Search method - better to encapsulate that data and functionality inside a class.

 

[mlb321]

Follow up:

If you'r going the hard-coded struct route, something like the following will work

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

struct X
{
int i;
char* str;
};

X Tbl[3] =
{ { 1, &quot;First&quot; },
{ 2, &quot;Second&quot; },
{ 3, &quot;Third&quot; } };

int main()
{
for ( int i=0; i<sizeof(Tbl)/sizeof(Tbl[0]); ++i )
{
cout << Tbl.i << &quot;,&quot; << Tbl.str << endl;
}
return 0;
}