Enum to String C

Question

I commonly find I need to convert an enum to a string in c    I always end up doing   enum Enum  Banana  Orange  Apple      char   getTextForEnum  int enumVal       switch  enumVal         case Enum  Banana      return  bananas  amp  monkeys     case Enum  Orange      return  Round and orange     case Enum  Apple      return  APPLE       default      return  Not recognized             Is there a better or recognized idiom for doing this

User · Accepted Answer

enum Enum  Banana  Orange  Apple     static const char   EnumStrings        bananas  amp  monkeys    Round and orange    APPLE      const char   getTextForEnum  int enumVal       return EnumStrings enumVal

User · Answer

Kind of an anonymous lookup table rather than a long switch statement   return  const char             bananas  amp  monkeys        Round and orange         APPLE     enumVal

User · Answer

You could throw the enum value and string into an STL map  Then you could use it like so      return myStringMap Enum  Apple

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