What is the correct way in C++ to create a global & static table of strings?
By "global", I mean: Useable from any file that includes the header. But not part of some run-time created singelton objcet.
By "static", I mean: As little run time set up possable. Data in read only memory pages. Only 1 instance of data per app.
By "string", I mean: Null terminated array of chars is fine. std::string would be nice, but I don't think it can be done in terms of the above. Correct?
By "table", I mean: I mean an indexable array. So I guess not a table per-se. But I'm flexable on this point. Open to ideas.
By "C++", I mean: C++ not C. (Update: C++98, not C++11)
strings.h
extern const char* table[];
strings.cpp
const char* table[] = {
"Stack",
"Overflow",
}
Another take on this, using error codes for a lookup table:
err.h
#define ERR_NOT_FOUND 0x1004
#define ERR_INVALID 0x1005
bool get_err_msg(int code, const char* &msg);
err.cpp
typedef struct {
int errcode;
const char* msg;
} errmsg_t;
static errmsg_t errmsg_table[] = {
{ERR_NOT_FOUND, "Not found"},
{ERR_INVALID, "Invalid"}
};
#define ERRMSG_TABLE_LEN sizeof(errmsg_table)/sizeof(errmsg_table[0])
bool get_err_msg(int code, const char* &msg){
msg = NULL;
for (int i=0; i<ERRMSG_TABLE_LEN; i++) {
if (errmsg_table[i].errcode == code) {
msg = errmsg_table[i].msg;
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
main.cpp
#include <stdio.h>
#include "err.h"
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
const char* msg;
int code = ERR_INVALID;
if (get_err_msg(code, msg)) {
printf("%d: %s\n", code, msg);
}
return 0;
}
I'm sure there is a more C++ way of doing this, but I'm really a C programmer.