From: Gruber Gerhard <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at>
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Subject: Re: Allegro Datafiles - More Problems
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 16:49:52 +0100
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Matt Riker wrote:

>  > the 'spritename' must be an int containing BLANK. If you need to use
>  > different
>  > values assign different ints to spritename.
> 
> I could be just dumb :), but how can you but a string of letters into an
> int?

You should use another array where the names are stored and then use the
index.
You could do it like this for example:

char *spritenames[4] = {
  "SPR1", 
  "SPR2", 
  "SPR3", 
  NULL
};

int foo(char *name)
{
   int i;

   for(i = 0; spritenames[i] != NULL; i++)
   {
      if(strcmp(spritenames[i], name) == 0)
          return(i);
   }

   return(-1);
}
  
Now you know the index of the spritename and can use it to index into
your datafile array.
-- 

Bye,
   Gerhard

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