Converting from String to Enum in C

Question

Is there a convienent way to take a string (input by user) and convert it to an Enumeration value? In this case, the string would be the name of the enumeration value, like

Answer 1

Not really, though if you use a hash function you can setup all of the values of your enum to match a set of hashed strings. You might have to use a more complicated hash if you don't care about case-sensitivity.

This is probably your best solution, since it has lower overhead than strcmp (...). The assignment of an enum value from a string hash does not require repeated string comparisons, etc...