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Re: Looking up a NSString constant at runtime
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Re: Looking up a NSString constant at runtime


  • Subject: Re: Looking up a NSString constant at runtime
  • From: David Alter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:03:45 -0800

I can open a library and lookup a function by name using dlsym. These
constants are EXTERN. It seams there should be away to look these up as
well.

-dave


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Scott Ribe <email@hidden>wrote:

> > What if I'm getting a string passed in that is the name of the constant
> and
> > I want to return the constants string value. Is there a way to do that?
>
> This is C, and just as with variables, the names are not there at runtime.
> If you really need to do this, you'll have to build your own lookup table,
> possibly using some macro magic to avoid having to type the name twice for
> each entry.
>
> --
> Scott Ribe
> email@hidden
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>
>
>
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