enums and output

[hunternjb]

I want to use an enum type and print out the constant rather than the integer value. Here is my enum type

enum Color { black=0, red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo, violet, white};

Color color;

color = red;

cout << color; This would give me the value 1.

How do I get &quot;red&quot; printed to the screen instead of the 1?

 

[SeekerOfKnowledge]

This is C++, not Ada, so you do not have
String S = Color'Image(color);

You can do it by preparing a static array of strings that
corresponds to the string values of the enum type:
string S[] = {&quot;Black&quot;,&quot;Red&quot;,&quot;Orange&quot;...};
and printing:
cout << S[color];

This can, of course, be put into a class that hides the details, plus you can use an STL map to get better hiding
of the fact that enums are in fact just int's...
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