Magic Enum C++

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What is Magic Enum?

Header-only C++17 library provides Enum-to-String and String-to-Enum functions.

• magic_enum::enum_to_string obtains string enum name from enum variable.
• magic_enum::enum_from_string obtains enum variable from enum string name.

Features

• C++17
• Header-only
• Dependency-free
• Compile-time
• Enum to string
• String to enum

Examples

• Enum variable to string enum name

  auto color = Color::RED;
  auto color_name = magic_enum::enum_to_string(color);
  if (color_name.has_value()) {
    // color_name.value() -> "RED"
  }
  

• Static storage enum variable to string enum name

  constexpr auto color = Color::BLUE;
  constexpr auto color_name = magic_enum::enum_to_string<color>();
  if (color_name.has_value()) {
    // color_name.value() -> "BLUE"
  }
  

• String enum name to enum variable

  constexpr auto color = magic_enum::enum_from_string<Color>("GREEN");
  if (color.has_value()) {
    // color.value() -> Color::GREEN
  }
  

Remarks

• magic_enum::enum_to_string returns std::optional<std::string_view>, using has_value() to check contains enum name and value() to get the enum name. If enum variable does not have name or out of range MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE, returns std::nullopt.

• magic_enum::enum_from_string returns std::optional<E>, using has_value() to check contains enum variable and value() to get the enum variable. If enum variable does not have name or out of range MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE, returns std::nullopt.

• Enum variable must be in range (-MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE, MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE). By default MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE = 128. If you need larger range, redefine the macro MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE.

  #define MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE 1028 // Redefine MAGIC_ENUM_RANGE for larger range.
  #include <magic_enum.hpp>
  

Integration

You should add the required file magic_enum.hpp.

Compiler compatibility

• Clang/LLVM >= 5
• Visual C++ >= 15.3 / Visual Studio >= 2017
• Xcode >= 10.2
• GCC >= 9

Licensed under the MIT License