Print text instead of value from C enum

Question

int main()
{

  enum Days{Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday};

  Days TheDay;

  int j = 0;

  printf(\"Please enter the day of the week (0 to         


        

Answer 1

I know I am late to the party, but how about this?

const char* dayNames[] = { [Sunday] = "Sunday", [Monday] = "Monday", /*and so on*/ };
printf("%s", dayNames[Sunday]); // prints "Sunday"

This way, you do not have to manually keep the enum and the char* array in sync. If you are like me, chances are that you will later change the enum, and the char* array will print invalid strings. This may not be a feature universally supported. But afaik, most of the mordern day C compilers support this designated initialier style.

You can read more about designated initializers here.