Author: Joshua Haglund
Date: 04:04:10 01/11/03
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On January 11, 2003 at 03:12:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On January 11, 2003 at 01:26:57, Joshua Haglund wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I need some clarification with a piece of code.
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>string menuChoice = " ";
>>
>> menuChoice = displayMenu();
>> while (menuChoice != "exit")
>> {
>> if (menuChoice == "xboard")
>> xboard();
>> else if (menuChoice == "log")
>> log();
>> else if (menuChoice == moves[5]) <---right here with moves[5],
>> moves();
>> else
>> cout << "Invalid move." << endl;
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>IF moves(); looked like this:
>>
>>void moves() {
>>
>>string moves[5] {"e2e4", "d2d4", "Nf3", "f2f4", "c2c4"};
>>}
>>
>>What I want to do is:
>>
>>if I enter a string for example:
>>
>>White(1): e2e4
>>
>>I want to have moves(); to look _in_ the string array move[5] and look for
>>"e2e4"
>>and if it finds "e2e4" selecting it for further processes. I'm not sure if i'm
>>going about this the right way.
>>
>>else if (menuChoice == moves[5]) <---- I want to look in moves[5] for a string.
>>
>>Looking for some clarification,
>
>In that array, the biggest allowed index is 4, because that is the 5th element.
>strcmp() will find it.
>
>Assuming:
> char * moves[5] = {"e2e4", "d2d4", "Nf3", "f2f4", "c2c4"};
>
>Then:
> moves[0] = "e2e4";
> moves[1] = "d2d4";
> moves[2] = "Nf3";
> moves[3] = "f2f4";
> moves[4] = "c2c4";
>
>The five elements are numbered 0 to 4.
Thanks agaian, Everyone.
Joshua
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