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

"Additional question: Is it possibile to handle undefined strings ? I mean if I try to get the value for responseHeaderMap["cookie"], what will be the value? (provided that "cookie" is not defined in the responseHeaderMap – bart s Nov 22 '16 at 12:04"

well, you can just make check before:

auto it = responseHeaderMap.find("cookie");
if (it != responseHeaderMap.end())
{
     // "cookie" exist, can take value 
}

After "cookie" exist check, you can get it value with use:

responseHeaderMap["cookie"]

hope this help