Using a STL map of function pointers

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Whatever your function signatures are:

typedef void (*ScriptFunction)(void); // function pointer type
typedef std::unordered_map<std::string, ScriptFunction> script_map;

// ...

void some_function()
{
}

// ...

script_map m;
m.emplace("blah", &some_function);

// ...

void call_script(const std::string& pFunction)
{
    auto iter = m.find(pFunction);
    if (iter == m.end())
    {
        // not found
    }

    (*iter->second)();
}

Note that the ScriptFunction type could be generalized to std::function</* whatever*/> so you can support any callable thing, not just exactly function pointers.

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