Phobos func for string -> enum member?

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 13 19:04:37 PDT 2016


On 10/13/2016 07:14 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 07:11:15PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> I'm sure it'd be easy enough to write, but does phobos have a simple
>> way to convert the name of an enum member from a runtime string to the
>> enum type?
>>
>> Ie, something like:
>>
>> enum Foobar { foo=1, bar }
>> Foobar a = doesThisExistInPhobos!Foobar("foo");
>>
>> I'm not finding anything like it in the docs, but I'm wondering if I
>> just missed it somewhere.
>
> 	import std.conv : to;
> 	Foobar a = "foo".to!Foobar;
>
> :-)
>
>
> T
>

Ah. Right. ;)

Thanks all.



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