C++ string to enum

Question

Is there a simple way in C++ to convert a string to an enum (similar to Enum.Parse in C#)? A switch statement would be very long, so I was wondering i

Answer 1

this worked for me:

enum NODES { Cone = 1, BaseColor = 2, NONE = 0 };

std::map nodeMap;
nodeMap["Cone"] = NODES::Cone;
nodeMap["BaseColor"] = NODES::BaseColor;