Re: Get friendly name of struct

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:18:45 -0400, Bob wrote:

> Is there any way to get the value name of an enumeration as a string?

In native C++, you have to create a map between enum values and string
representations. For a dense range of values, particularly one that starts
with the value zero, you can use an array. More generally, you can use an
associative array like std::map.

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Doug Harrison
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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