I have a function that takes an integer and returns a string that is picked by a switch. The strings are part of a coherent text and I want to be able to add cases to the switch whenever I want to edit the coherent text that the function returns when called for each consecutive int.

So how the function looks like right now:

std::string proceed(int id){
   switch(id){
      case 1: return "Hello";
      case 2: return "my ";
      case 3: return "is";
      case 4: return "Marc";
   }
}

I would like to be able to insert “Name” after case 2 and before case 3. What I do right now is insert another case 3 : return “Name”; and increase ALL the indices below by 1. Which is very fiddly and horrible workflow.

I am looking for a way to do something like the following, in a C++-legal way:

std::string proceed(int id){

   int i = 0;

   switch(id){
      case ++i: return "Hello";
      case ++i: return "my ";
      case ++i: return "is";
      case ++i: return "Marc";
   }
}

here the case statement always (in code) uses the same symbols, which allows to just dump a case anywhere without adjusting ALL the cases.

Is there any syntax or tool to do this in a neat way? (besides using some separate program for automated text editing)