This has been posed, sort of, several times in Discourse or stackoverflow. For this example: @enum condition nil=5 mild sick severe It is easy to get the enum with an integer: julia> condition(5) nil::condition = 5 I have a need to convert a string that matches the enum’s appearance to the actua…

Retrieving an instance of an enum using a string

mhinsch July 12, 2021, 6:42pm 5

Nice. I used eval(Meta.parse(...)), but this is prettier. Of course, ideally parse(condition, "...") would just work, but oh well, I’ll take your solution.

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Retrieving an instance of an enum using a string

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