How to run function by searching its name?

So my game's character has various skills.

Let's say my hero character has "Skill1", "Skill2", "Skill3" skill names.

and I want to run those skill's specific effect function by searching skill's name.

So I made like,

Code (CSharp):

1. public void RunSkill(){
2.         switch(heroskills.name){
3.         case "Skill1":
4.             Skill1();        break;
5.         }
6.     }
7.     public void Skill1(){
8.  
9.     }
10.     public void Skill2(){
11.        
12.     }
13.     public void Skill3(){
14.        
15.     }

But isn't there more neat way with not using switch?

Because I have many characters (over 40) and each character will has more than 5 skills, then total over 200 skills.
I don't want to write over 200 switch case.

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a89hcwhh(v=vs.110).aspx

 

I am not sure if i understand your question correctly.
You want to call different functions and call them depending on a skill name? Or do you want similar skill effects and call them depending on your charactertype?

For the first delegates could help.
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/intermediate/scripting/delegates
You could add heroskills.skill1 heroskills.skill2 and so on to a (multi-)delegate and afterwards call the delegate to start the added skills without having to go through a switch.

For the second inheritance can help.
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/intermediate/scripting/inheritance
Make a parent class person/player with a function skill(basicattack, specialattack).
Create your character from person/player and give him his personal skill effect. Then you can always call basicattack, specialattack and so on instead of a specific skill name and checking which charactertype it is.

 

If you REALLY want to have the same name yuo can use SendMessage
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.SendMessage.html

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public void RunSkills() {
3.     SendMessage(heroskills.name, "");
4. }
5.  
6. public void Skill1() {...}
7.  

I would not recommend it though... and you have to make sure the names are the very same.

 

Thx.
First is my intention.
And I don't want multi-cast all of skills functions at one time. If user use one skill, only specific function needed to be called.
Then how to do this by multi delegate? (you mean multi as += to delegate and increase functions to delegate?)
If I should assign which function is for delegate at this time, it will also be grinding works like switch grinding.

 

Would 'StartCoroutine' be any help to you? There's an overload which accepts a string as name and fires the coroutine.

As for the names, in order to not make every change in every script all the time, you could make a static helperClass that holds the skill names as a static (or even const) string variable, so you would only need to make sure that the string assigned to the variable matches the coroutines name. Any changes would only need to be applied to the coroutines name and the string.

 

Just a question. You say that a user can select the skill. How does he do that? How does heroskills.name get its settings? Why can't that action directly call the function instead of calling a generic RunSkill()? (That would be better with inheritance where you only add the additional custom character runskill code to RunSkill() )
StartCoroutine(heroskills.name) would be a safer bet when the user selects the skill.

Just for fun. The following code would be needed when you want to create delegates of functions by calling their names.
But the script is not fully complete since you have to change "typeof(yourClassName)" to your desired class from which you want to run a method.

Code (csharp):

1. //using System.Reflection; //has to be added
2.  
3. delegate void delegateSkillsetToRun();
4. delegateSkillsetToRun characterSkillsetToRun;
5.  
6. //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783108/c-return-a-delegate-given-an-object-and-a-method-name
7. delegateSkillsetToRun GetByName(object target, string methodName)
8. {
9.    if(typeof(yourClassName).GetMethod(methodName,
10.      BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance|BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy)
11.      !=null)
12.      return (delegateSkillsetToRun)delegateSkillsetToRun.CreateDelegate(typeof(delegateSkillsetToRun),
13.     target, methodName);
14.    return null;
15. }
16.  
17. public void prepareRunSkill(){
18. characterSkillsetToRun = GetByName(this, heroskills.name);
19. //characterSkillsetToRun += GetByName(this, heroskills.name); //otherskills
20. }
21.  
22. public void Start() { prepareRunSkill(); } // i am thinking that a runSkill is not changing if the character is not changed.
23.  
24. public void RunSkill(){
25. if(characterSkillsetToRun!=null)
26.    characterSkillsetToRun();

}