I'm writing a sort of assembler in C where it takes the asm code and generates a binary file. Since the instructions are 1:1 for actual binary code would using a lookup table be the best method for translating "add", "sub", "mov", etc to their binary equivalents? If statements seem slow and tedious.

If so, does anybody know any good resources? In perl/python obiviously the hash types made things easier...and yes I googled...

...you could try posting to some kind of web forum...

If you want a hash type like perl python make one.

Init a big array.
Get Key, convert to number.
Put at that spot in the array.

Why don't you use something based on strstr() and a switch statement? Gawd, are you stoopid or summat? :-) :-) :-)

struct lookup_entry {
  const char *instruction;
  const unsigned int code;
};

struct lookup_entry lookup_table[] = {
  {"add", 0x01},
  {"mul", 0x02},
  {"mov", 0x03},
  ...
  {NULL, 0}
};

unsigned int lookup_instruction(const char*);

I'd write the lookup_instruction(const char*) function for you as well, but then I'd have to charge you a fat wad of cash.