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

That would be a good solution :

enum e_test { a, b, c, END };

enum e_test get_enum_value(char * val) {
    static char const * e_test_str[] = { "a", "b", "c" };
    for (int i = 0; i < END; ++i)
        if (!strcmp(e_test_str[i], val))
            return i;
    return END;
 }