Thread: Best way to handle incoming commands from a client.

My current idea for this would be to have a function inside my class that contains the socket that looks something like this:
My question is "Can it be done better?" I would hope to keep my input as a string but that could change as well the lagg times killed my last mmorpg attempt.

Code:

void VAA_Input(char* Command)  //validate and act on input
{
   switch(Command[0])
   {
      case 'a':
      case 'A':
      if(strncmp(Command,"Aquire_Item",11) == 0)
      {
          //run code to aquire specified item
      }else
      if(strcmp ...)
      {
          //do something
      }else
      break;
      .
      .
      .
      case 'z':
      case Z':

      break;
      default:    
      //ignore it because it isn't a keyword
      break;
   }
}