How to manage team structures and turns?

[ehenkes]

This situation must be very frequent:

There are two teams fighting against each other.
They act/fight in turns, i.e. team A - team B - team A - team B - ...
There are different characters who can belong to team A or B

I designed a class CCharacter and a class CTeam (with an array of pointers to the members of the team).

My problem: How can I check by a for loop, whether a character is selected?
There is no general vector array with all characters at the field.

How would you organize this situation and let the teams have their turns alternatively? Is there a general way to manage that?

[rogerborg]

My problem: How can I check by a for loop, whether a character is selected?

I don't know, because I have no idea what "selected" means in the context of your problem.

There is no general vector array with all characters at the field.

Then there's no way to do it with a single for loop. Do it by looping over each CCharacter in each CTeam, or create another array of all CCharacters. I'm sure you're very well aware of those two possible solutions.

How would you organize this situation and let the teams have their turns alternatively?

This appears to be a different question. I can't see the connection between "selected" and "turns".

Is there a general way to manage that?

I doubt it.

I also suspect you're thinking out loud, and asking rhetorical questions rather than getting on with just implementing a solution, but then I'm a nasty suspicious hobbitses.