Data Management for Management Game

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octothorpe

I was thinking about it, and now think that representing unused array elements would be simpler using "blank" objects rather than NULLs.

To move a player from one team to another:

delete p\league[1]\team[12]\player[18]
p\league[1]\team[12]\player[18] = p\league[0]\team[0]\player[0]
p\league[0]\team[0]\player[0] = new player
; update parent pointers
p\league[0]\team[0]\player[0]\team = p\league[0]\team[0]
p\league[1]\team[12]\player[18]\team = p\league[1]\team[12]

or, alternately you could simply swap the pointers if you know there's already a blank object at the destination:

temp.player = p\league[1]\team[12]\player[18]
p\league[1]\team[12]\player[18] = p\league[0]\team[0]\player[0]
p\league[0]\team[0]\player[0] = temp
; update parent pointers
p\league[0]\team[0]\player[0]\team = p\league[0]\team[0]
p\league[1]\team[12]\player[18]\team = p\league[1]\team[12]

This last snippet will also trade two players between two teams.