Lookup table help

Can you read this kind of way a lookup table or it has to be a multidimensional array mixing the corresponding values one after the other?

Code:

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#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

static const char lookup[17] = "0123456789:;<=";

static const char *Hex[] ={
"0x60","0x61","0x62","0x63","0x64",
"0x65","0x66","0x67","0x68","0x69",
"0x71","0x72","0x73","0x74","0x75"
};

int main()
{
    cout << Hex[lookup[13]] << endl;

      return 0;
}

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That's C++ and should have been posted in the C++ forum.

Did you try this at all? Why don't you add a return 0; and a closing brace to your code, compile it and see what happens. Then, if you still have questions, come back and ask.

EDIT: I'm actually not sure what exactly you're asking or what you're trying to do here. Perhaps you're asking about parallel arrays? See if this helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_array.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by anduril462

That's C++ and should have been posted in the C++ forum.

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Yeah, and hence moved.

Ok, im sorry i thought it was clear enough.

So what i would like to do is returning the corresponding value in the Hex array when I call the lookup array.
Its crashing for the moment.

Thank you.

So if you have lookup[13], then just do Hex[13].

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Ducky

So what i would like to do is returning the corresponding value in the Hex array when I call the lookup array.

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Use a std::map or std::unordered_map instead. The problem now is that to find the corresponding value in the Hex array, you need to search for it in the lookup array first, and then based on the index found, obtain the element in the Hex array.

Yes I know about the way of searching but they told me that if you use a lookup table you dont need to compare the values "search" one by one, you can just read the value at the index of the array.
Well thats the point of lookup tables that you dont have to search for it.

Im sure you know what i mean, its something simple but i cant seem to figure it out. Maybe i should use a multidimensional array.

And id like to do it with arrays thats why I posted it in the C forum.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Ducky

Well thats the point of lookup tables that you dont have to search for it.

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Hence your lookup table is not really a lookup table. Now, if you had a way to compute the index given the character, then indeed you would have a lookup table. Since you don't, the next best option is to use a hash table to get something similiar, hence my suggestion of std::unordered_map.

Ok so you definitely need a way to compute the index.
Thanks, then ill try it with std::unordered_map.

I think your problem is that you think you need two lookup tables for this and hence you've got 'lookup' AND 'hex'. All you actually need is just the 'hex' table, but you need to calculate the right index. To do that, you can just subtract the value that you want the first table index to correspond to before doing the lookup.
In this case you want the first mapping to be from '0' to "0x60", so you subtract '0' from what you are looking up. To lookup '4' you then do:

Code:

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cout << Hex['4' - '0'] << endl;

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Note that you cannot have gaps in your lookup table, you must specify a mapping for every value between other values.

Next, are you sure that you're mapping to the desired strings? It looks like it starts with the octal representation of a char, but using a hexadecimal prefix, and going wrong after "0x67".

Yes iMalc, somebody showed me how to do it in the meantime, its like you say it, I only need one lookup table and it got to go from 0 to 255 without gaps. :)

So finally its possible without calculating the index.
Maybe I didnt explain well enough what I wanted to Laserlight.

Thanks for the help everyone! :)