switch/case statement in C++ with a QString type

Question

I want to use switch-case in my program but the compiler gives me this error:

switch expression of type \'QString\' is illegal

How can I us

Answer 1

Late to the party, here's a solution I came up with some time ago, which completely abides to the requested syntax and works with c++11 onwards.

#include 

bool isStopWord( QString word )
{
bool flag = false ;

uberswitch( word )
{
case ("the"):
    flag = true ;
    break ;
case ("at") :
    flag = true ;
    break ;
case ("in") :
    flag = true ;
    break ;
case ("your"):
    flag = true ;
    break ;
case ("near"):
    flag = true ;
    break ;
case ("all"):
    flag = true ;
    break ;
case ("this"):
    flag = true ;
    break ;
}

return flag ;
}

The only differences to be noticed are the usage of uberswitch in place of switch and the parenthesis around the case value (needed, baucause that's a macro).

Here's the code: https://github.com/falemagn/uberswitch