comparing char to other known char's

[James Colannino <james@colannino.org>]

Hey everyone.  I hope this isn't a stupid question.  I've been googling
around trying to find a function that I can use but haven't been
successful.  Here's what I want to be able to do:

let's say I have a char called 'character.'  I want to compare
'character' to see if it's any one of the characters in a list.  For
example, maybe I would want to test character to see if it's either 'e',
'r', '*', etc.

Is this easy enough to implement?  I could do if (character == 'e' ||
character == [...] and so on and so forth, but this seems much to
tedious and unreadable to be my only solution.  If anyone has any ideas
I'd be extremely grateful :)  Thanks very much in advance.

James

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