Execution of functions depending on the value of a variable - C ++

Question

I am working on a transliteration tool. I have two lexer modules and a translator. Lexer generates tokens from the input text. Depending on the chosen language, I have to call the appropriate translation procedure.

I came up with a couple of ideas for this. First you need to create a base class called base_translator, and provide a virtual method ( translate()), which every translator must override. Now create a factory translator_factoryand call create()with the language name. This factory will return the corresponding instance.

But that sounds like engineering. So I came up with a different approach in which I have a structure similar to the following.

struct translator
{
    const char* name;
    void (*fp)();
};

Which only holds the language name and function pointer that can handle it. Use will be

static translator translators[] = {
    {"first", first},
    {"second", second}
};
const char* language = /* */; 
for(int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
    translator *t = translators + i;
    if(strcmp(t->name, language) == 0) {
        t->fp();
        break;
    }
}

This approach is very simple and easy to maintain. But I wonder is this the best approach to the problem? Do you have any suggestions to make this better?

Any help would be great.

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