[RESOLVED] Passing too many arguments - can I make some kind of structure for these?

I had this loop

Code:

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do {                                                                                                // Loop continues to run as long as (pcCW != 0)
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        cwR = cwRules[(loopCW * 2) + 1][pcCW];                        // Fact-check at that spot
        if (dbgOn && dbgStarted) {
                cout << cwR << "...";
        }
        checkRule(cwOn, cwR, pcCW, cwWordCount, cwStage, cwLeftWord, cwRightWord, cwLineDone, pcCWRight, cwIgnore
                                , cwOnLeft, cwOnRight, cwDisqual, cwOptional, cwIgnoreWord, cwEndsWith, cwNot, cwInIgnore, cwFinishIgnore, cwCascade, cwInRepeat
                                , smarkerskt, emarkerskt, flags
                                , dbgOn);
        if (!cwOn) {
                pcCW = 0;
        }
} while (pcCW != 0);

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And the logic was getting too bulky - so I made that "checkRule" function - and am passing in - hopefully by reference (please someone confirm that!) - a whole lot of bool's and int's and what not.

checkRule declared like this

Code:

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        void checkRule(bool &cwOn, WCHAR &cwR, int &pcCW, int &cwWordCount, int &cwStage, int &cwLeftWord, int &cwRightWord, int &cwLineDone, int &pcCWRight, int &cwIgnore
                                                                , bool &cwOnLeft, bool &cwOnRight, bool &cwDisqual, bool &cwOptional, bool &cwIgnoreWord, bool &cwEndsWith, bool &cwNot, bool &cwInIgnore, bool &cwFinishIgnore, bool &cwCascade, bool &cwInRepeat
                                                                , int *smarkerskt, int *emarkerskt, short *flags
                                                                , bool &dbgOn)
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        }

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Can I take all these bool's - for instance - and put them in some kind of structure so I am only passing one "parameter" but still getting at all these variables??

Yes you can create a struct or a class to hold them all, and pass it instead.

Code:

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class Rule
{
public:
    bool cwOn;
    WCHAR cwR;
    // etc..
};

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Ok - I tried both STRUCT and CLASS.

I like the CONSTRUCTOR functionality of the class - that's all I needed - and I'm happily running a much smaller "main code" loop!