semi-final switch?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 05:41:28PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[.[..]
> Oh, and to throw a monkey wrench in here, the value is a string, not
> an integer. So I can't use std.conv.to to verify the enum is valid
> (plus, then I'm running a switch twice).
> 
> Any ideas on better ways to handle this?
[...]

Why not just:

	try {
		MyEnum value = input.to!MyEnum;
	} catch (Exception e) {
		stderr.writeln("Invalid input");
	}

?


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