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Various Questions for Visual Basic and C/C++

Posted by John Lenz on 2000-03-07

Hi.  I have a couple of questions(3).
  
  1) Is there any way to do macro substitution in
Visual Basic 6.0.  I know in Visual FoxPro code like
  str = "substitution"
  do &str
would run the program substitution.
I am looking to execute a sub with the name in a
string.

  2)  Is there a object I could use to output text
with ancii commands in the text string.  What I mean
by that is the old dos syntax like "Esc[0;32m text
here" would change to text here in green.  I only need
the color commands, not the other positioning
commands, because I am receiving text from the
Internet with color codes in it.  A function that
would convert the string to rich text format might be
another solution, but I don't know rich text format.

  3)Finally.  This question pertains to any language
but I will be writing the program in C/C++ (I know C
but have just started learning C++)
What would be the fastest lookup table.  A binary tree
turns into an expensive linear search when the input
is already in alphabetical order.  The input is coming
>from a file that will be written to when the program
is finished, so if I balanced the binary tree and then
had the program write in the same order it would read
the next time, I could avoid the problem.  I was just
wondering if there was a faster and more efficient way
of handling a large lookup table.
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