get enum declarator to string

[sdude]

Hi,
is it possible to get the declarator name of an enum, for example :

enum day {
monday,
tuesday
};

and

day today=monday;
CString dayname=howto?( today );

so that "dayname" is "monday"??

I don´t want to use extra arrays with the names for exisiting big enums that i use in my programs, but want the names to show for status info..

I think that there must be a way to do this, cause for example the VS variable viewer can show during debugging the "names" for variables of type enum..

thanks,
Siggi

PS: sorry for the broken english.. :-(

[sdude]

If this post is in the wrong discussion group, maybe one of the administrators could move it to the right one.

[astanley]

In C++, there is no way to automatically convert enums into string equivalents.

The Visual Studio IDE is able to do it because it has access to your source code, which your running program doesn't (as the source code will have been compiled).

This kind of thing is normally done with a lookup table, or resource dll.

By the way, you can do this in C#, as all types are objects derived from the base object, which has a ToString method.

[Roger Allen]

You could declare a map:

map<day, CString> x;

// populate it
x[monday] = "monday";
x[tuesday] = "tuesday";
...

// access it
dayname = x[enumVariable];

[Andreas Masur]

Originally posted by sdude
If this post is in the wrong discussion group, maybe one of the administrators could move it to the right one.

No....it is fine...