get string value from 2d table

[robi]

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    void (*const state_table [5][8]) () = {
    
     { answer, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing}, /* procedures for state 0 */
     { nothing, play, end, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing}, /* procedures for state 1 */
     { nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, end, end, nothing, nothing}, /* procedures for state 2 */
     { nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, end, end, nothing}, /* procedures for state 3 */
     { nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing} /* procedures for state 4 */
    };



    printf("%s\n", state_table[1][2]);

How can I get the string value from a 2d table. For example from state_table, one row down and one column down, string "play"

[MK27]

1) string literals in C must be double quoted.
2) I have no idea what this is supposed to be:

void (*const state_table [5][8]) ()

but it looks like a function pointer prototype, not a 2D array of string literals. How about:

const char *state_table[5][8] = {
  { "answer", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing"},
 { "nothing", "play", "end", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing"},
 { "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "end", "end", "nothing", "nothing"},
 { "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "end", "end", "nothing"},
 { "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing", "nothing"}
};

Now your printf will work.

[robi]

yes it is function pointer prototype - I didnt know what is was called. What I really need is to log the functions that are called by the function pointer.

Now that you have shown me the proper way to do it as a 2d table I can do that however this will require to duplicate the structure of the function pointer.

Do you have any suggestion if the called function can be logged from with the function pointer?

[MK27]

I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean you want to pass a pointer to this table to a logging function, the parameter would be:

void my_logger (const char *table[5][8]);

[robi]

Let me try to explain a bit further. is it possible to put further code inside the function pointer prototype to printf out the name of the called function each time it does a lookup

[anduril462]

Let me try to explain a bit further. is it possible to put further code inside the function pointer prototype to printf out the name of the called function each time it does a lookup

Not easily. At least, not if you want to have an "automatic" way to have the strings table mirror the function pointer table. You can do some complicated pre-processor trickery with X-Macros (C preprocessor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), but that's a pain. The other alternative is simply to use the __func__ symbol and put a printf/log statement in each function:

void answer(void)
{
    fprintf(log_file, "Executing function %s\n", __func__);

    // the rest of your function
}

[BillyTKid]

2) I have no idea what this is supposed to be:

void (*const state_table [5][8]) ()

Its a 2dim state machine from a thread last week.