Sorted Key Dictionary

[CharlieJV]

Ah this is way more fun when I have a practical application for Dictionary.

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A great use case for a dictionary: country code lookup.

Just for the giggles, here's one silly (but interesting to me) use case for a dictionary (very rudimentary capability in BAM).  Kind of simulating a "one-liner switch" statement:

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INIT:

  _initaudio

  _mapset("CARROT", 1)
  _mapset("CORN", 2)
  _mapset("POTATO", 3)

MAIN_PROGRAM:

  getselection:
    input "Search for recipes: enter one ingredient:", selection$
    selection$ = ucase$(selection$)
    if _mapget(selection$) = "" then beep : print "sorry, no recipes for " + selection$ : goto getselection

  on _mapget(selection$) gosub CARROT, CORN, POTATO

  goto getselection

  end

SUBROUTINES:

  CARROT:
    print "setup special processing for carrot-related recipes and info"
    RETURN

  CORN:
    print "setup special processing for corn-related recipes and info"
    RETURN

  POTATO:
    print "setup special processing for potato-relatd recipes and info"
    RETURN