Functions are the driving force of any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, generating a single value or an array of results based on ...

An Excel table containing applicants' ID, age, licence status, certification, and work abroad status, and three additional columns containing AND, OR, and NOT functions.

If that is the case, all you need is to build a hash table / map (multimap if you allow overloading), or even a simple array/list of the name -> function pointer.<BR><BR>Your real problem is ...