Optimization: Best way to if/elseif 100 items?

[Selzier]

The player in my game shoots a ray out and will hit maybe around 100 different objects in a single scene. Right now I have a if/elseif set up that is going through about 5 items like so...

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local sSensor = object.getModelName ( hHitSensorObject )

if ( sSensor == "door" )
then
    object.sendEvent ( hHitSensorObject, "AI_Door", "onActivateDoor" )               
elseif ( sSensor == "button" )
then
    object.sendEvent ( hHitSensorObject, "AI_Button", "onTouch" )
end


But I do not think using if/elseif is the right thing to do here, my list will be getting very large with 100 items. What is a good way to maybe send the sSensor off to another function without having to run through a if/elseif?

[psychicsoftware]

If your other objects are all to be handled similarly to that, then you could give their AIs all a handler named "onDefaultAction" and find the AI of hHitSensorObject using object.getAIModelNameAt ( hObject, nIndex )

[Scribe]

The player is my game shoots a ray out and will hit maybe around 100 different objects in a single scene. Right now I have a if/elseif set up that is going through about 5 items like so...

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local sSensor = object.getModelName ( hHitSensorObject )

if ( sSensor == "door" )
then
    object.sendEvent ( hHitSensorObject, "AI_Door", "onActivateDoor" )               
elseif ( sSensor == "button" )
then
    object.sendEvent ( hHitSensorObject, "AI_Button", "onTouch" )
end


But I do not think using if/elseif is the right thing to do here, my list will be getting very large with 100 items. What is a good way to maybe send the sSensor off to another function without having to run through a if/elseif?

I can think of four more ideal scenarios, three of which can be done in ShiVa and here's the one I recommend by far for speed and organisation:

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local sSensor = object.getModelName ( hHitSensorObject );

local vIndex = string.findFirst ( sSensor , ",", 0 );

local sAIName = string.getSubString ( sSensor , 0, vIndex );
local sHandlerName = string.getSubString ( sSensor , vIndex+1, string.getLength(sSensor)-1-vIndex );

object.sendEvent ( hHitSensorObject, sAIName, sHandlerName );


I appologise if some of my index offsets are off I haven't tested this, you then name your sensors like so: "AI_Door,onActivateDoor".

Now you don't have to perform a single check, enter a load of code or query multiple objects (if it doesn't accept commas in the name use something else).

[Selzier]

Thanks to psychicsoftware and Scribe-

I will end up using a combination of both answers and seems to work great- Thanks!