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Re: Optimizing the code: way to reduce if, else if-s within the loop?

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Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 2:00:32 PM UTC+3, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
<snip>
>> But I would go another way.  Rather than find the offset of a named
>> member, I'd make all the members have numbers and name the numbers.
<snip>
>> I'd write
>> 
>> enum {
>>     Sales,
>>     CS_Cogs,
>>     ...
>>     NumberOfItems
>> };  /* or use a list of #define lines */
>> 
>> struct data {
>>     double item[NumberOfItems]; 
>> };
>> 
>> Now you can have the names in a table and simply look up the
>> corresponding number.
>> 
>> const char *names[] = {
>>     [Sales] = "Sales",
>>     [CS_Cogs] = "Cost of Goods Sold",
>>     ...
>> };
> I am doing my best to dig through this approach, and to learn
> how to use it, and while doing it, I have realized that I can't use
> it here because there are 3 names, each having two valid options;
> so I can't create an array names and assign names to indices; 
> for example:  [CS_Cogs] can be "Cost of Goods Sold" and
> it also can be "COGS", which doesn't change the number of 
> input lines, only the name. Am I correct assuming that this 
> approach doesn't account for such issues?

Sorry, I did not spot that change.  I was thinking of what you
originally said:

| (1) check if row names completely correspond to the required ones,
| no more or less of those - for this I assume I need an array
| of required row names, and when reading each line from the 
| file, make sure that line 1 row name equals the first name in 
| the array, etc.

I think at some point this changed to having two arrays of row names,
because I do remember seeing such a thing, but I'd forgotten it.

In my view, listing all the names in the code is messy enough that I
would put the names into a table, but when there are more than one valid
name that does gets a little more complicated.  I suspect this is a case
of "too many cooks" again, so I think you should drop this idea an keep
going with a big "if" statement.

-- 
Ben.

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  Re: Optimizing the code: way to reduce if, else if-s within the loop? Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 09:35 -0800
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      Re: Optimizing the code: way to reduce if, else if-s within the loop? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-22 10:54 +0000
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    Re: Optimizing the code: way to reduce if, else if-s within the loop? Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 03:24 -0800
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            Re: Optimizing the code: way to reduce if, else if-s within the loop? Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 11:23 -0800
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      Re: Optimizing the code: way to reduce if, else if-s within the loop? Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 10:35 -0800
        Re: Optimizing the code: way to reduce if, else if-s within the loop? Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 10:38 -0800
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