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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Converting Char to Enum
Date: 3 Mar 2002 14:07:17 -0600
Date: 2002-03-03T14:07:17-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NQBuzCn+10BW@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns91C6CA7E41AB5Lars17NoCBW@larsno.fqdn.th-h.de

In article <Xns91C6CA7E41AB5Lars17NoCBW@larsno.fqdn.th-h.de>, Lars Noschinski <lars@usenet.noschinski.de> writes:
> dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>> Ouch! From heavy to heavier!
>> An array is clearly the obvious efficient solution here.
> 
> You mean something like
> 
>   convert : constant array(characters) of symbols := ...
> 
>   sym : symbols;
>   char : characters;
> 
> and an assignment like
> 
> "sym := convert(char)"?
> 
> In this case, how I catch invalid characters?

Perhaps with one additional symbol named INVALID_CHARACTER.



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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-02 18:17 Converting Char to Enum Lars Noschinski
2002-03-03  1:15 ` sk
2002-03-03 16:43   ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-03 18:54     ` Lars Noschinski
2002-03-03 20:07       ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-03-03 20:21         ` Lars Noschinski
2002-03-03 22:46           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-04  6:55           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-03 20:13       ` tmoran
2002-03-03  6:30 ` tmoran
2002-03-04 11:01 ` sk
     [not found] ` <3C835426.DA864199@myob.com>
2002-03-04 12:48   ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-03-04 16:36     ` Lars Noschinski
2002-03-04 23:17       ` David C. Hoos
2002-03-05 15:55         ` Lars Noschinski
2002-03-05 20:15           ` David C. Hoos
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2002-03-06  6:23 Christoph Grein
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