How to print enums?

[kenk]

Hi,

Does enyone know how to print string describing the enum value?
For example:

enum MyEnum{F1=1, F2};
...
MyEnum me = F2;
printf("My Value: %d", me);
...
I get string: "My Value: 2", but how can i format the string to get strong like:
"My Value: F2" ?

Thanks in advance for help?

kenk

[Banfa]

There is no short cut

if (me == F2)
{
    printf("My Value: F2");
}
else if (me == F2)
{
    printf("My Value: F1");
}
else
{
    printf("My Value: Invalid Enum Value");
}

When using enums I often implement a function that returns const char * to convert the enum value to a string of it's name to make it easily accessable for debug messages.

[Ganon11]

if (me == F2)
{
    printf("My Value: F2");
}
else if (me == F2)
{
    printf("My Value: F1");
}
else
{
    printf("My Value: Invalid Enum Value");
}

This will work, but if you want to save some typing, use a switch structure:

switch(me) {
   case F1: printf("My Value: F1"); break;
   case F2: printf("My Value: F2"); break;
   default: printf("My Value: Invalid Enum Value");
}

[Banfa]

This will work, but if you want to save some typing, use a switch structure:

Quite and in fact particularly true if the enum has >>>2 values