Hi I'm new to C and was wondering whether there is a better way to solve my problem than a switch( ) case statment.
I'm trying to decode a byte of data from an ICMP packet, because it's a byte, it can have 256 different values, with most of the values relating to a different piece of content. Currently i am using this method:
Code:
switch (value)
{
case 0: printf("0 echo reply");
break;
case 1: printf("1 unassigned");
break;
case 2: printf("2 unassigned");
break;
case 3: printf("3 destination unreachable")
break;
case 4; printf("4 source quench")
break;
..... and so on and so on......... until 255
As you can imagine this method is quite time consuming, is there a better/more efficient way to do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks