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

[szlamany]

I had this loop

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);

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

	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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	}

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??

[Atheist]

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

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

[szlamany]

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!