Simplify long conditional

[latent sentinel]

Okay I'm sure this is an extremely dumb question but I A: was never trained with something like this and B: Have no clue how to even ask this question to google

Is there a more simple/compact way to do this:

        if(scan[itr] == '#' || scan[itr] == '%' || scan[itr] == '&' || scan[itr] == '{' || scan[itr] == '}' || scan[itr] == '\\' || scan[itr] == '<' || scan[itr] == '>' || scan[itr] == '*' || scan[itr] == '?' || scan[itr] == '/' || scan[itr] == '$' || scan[itr] == '!' || scan[itr] == '\'' || scan[itr] == '\"' || scan[itr] == ':' || scan[itr] == '@' || scan[itr] == '+' || scan[itr] == '`' || scan[itr] == '|' || scan[itr] == '=')
        {
            //condtion to be executed
        }

Sorry if this is aneurysm inducing 😭

[sharp marsh]

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[main vigil]

honestly at this point I would just create an array of accepted elements and check if it's in that

std::array acceptedValues{....}
if (contains(acceptedValues, scans[itr])
  // do thing

[tropic summit]

No idea about the rest of your code so I can't offer potentially better solutions, but if it's just this in isolation then you could do

switch (scan[itr]) {
case '#':
case '%':
case '&':
case '{':
// ...
case '=': {
    codeIfTrue();
    break;
}
}

[latent sentinel]

Thank you both sorry for having you see that nightmare lmao, i was attmepting to make something that removes any illegal charecters from a string and in my bout of sleep deprevation that was my bright idea, might go with the array method since this is being added to a public project and i dont want to give any one else a migraine lol

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