C problem

Sup prog
i'm using C
i have a problem

i have a dvi file where each line is a command and its parameters
i have to output a file and write what the commands do

i have been able to parse the lines into strings and get the first string which is the command itself

my goal is to compare that first string (the command) with strings contained in a string array (which are all the commands that exist in a dvi file)

that way i can return the corresponding function which will do the calculation using the parameters from the line

problem is that there is a command named set_char_i where i can go from 0 to 127

my command string array looks like that:
char *commandes[40]={"pre", "xxx1", "set", "set_char_i", "set_rule", "put", "put_rule", "down", "fnt_num", "w0", "w", "x0", "x", "y0", "y", "z0", "z", "fnt_def", "post", "post_post", "eop", "bop", "push", "pop"};

how can i make it so that "set_char_i" has i between 0 and 127?

>>19

but...but...but..this way I can strcmp the buffer with a finite set of strings, determined at compile time, with the efficiency of a single strcmp!

for example, if the strings were: hi me how are you

I could do:


#define NOTHING -1
#define HI 2
#define ME 4
#define HOW 7
#define ARE 11
#define YOU 16

char *start = buffer;
char *position;
int state = 0;
int token = NOTHING;

for(;;) {
  switch(*position) {
    case 'h': switch(state) { case 0: state = 1; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'i': switch(state) { case 1: state = 2; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'm': switch(state) { case 0: state = 3; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'e': switch(state) { case 3: state = 4; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'h': switch(state) { case 0: state = 5; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'o': switch(state) { case 5: state = 6; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'w': switch(state) { case 6: state = 7; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'a': switch(state) { case 8: state = 9; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'r': switch(state) { case 9: state = 10; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'e': switch(state) { case 10: state = 11; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'y': switch(state) { case 0: state = 12; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'o': switch(state) { case 13: state = 14; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'u': switch(state) { case 15: state = 16; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case '\0': state = NOTHING; break;
  }
  switch(state) {
    case NOTHING: return NULL; break;
    case HI:
    case ME:
    case HOW:
    case ARE:
    case YOU:
      return state;
      break;
  }
}

And this then reduces to:


#define NOTHING -1
#define HI 2
#define ME 4
#define HOW 7
#define ARE 11
#define YOU 16

char *start = buffer;
char *position;
int state = 0;
int token = NOTHING;

for(;;) {
  switch(*position) {
    case 'h': switch(state) { case 0: state = 1; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'i': switch(state) { case 1: state = 2; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'm': switch(state) { case 0: state = 3; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'e': switch(state) { case 3: state = 4; break;
                              case 10: state = 11; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'o': switch(state) { case 1: state = 6; break;
                              case 13: state = 14; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'w': switch(state) { case 6: state = 7; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'a': switch(state) { case 8: state = 9; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'r': switch(state) { case 9: state = 10; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case 'y': switch(state) { case 0: state = 12; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }
    case 'u': switch(state) { case 15: state = 16; break;
                              default: state = 0; break;
                            }

    case '\0': state = NOTHING; break;
  }
  switch(state) {
    case NOTHING: return NULL; break;
    case HI:
    case ME:
    case HOW:
    case ARE:
    case YOU:
      return state;
      break;
  }
}