string enum

[stray quiver]

Hi, I want to have an enum that instead of it's members referring to int etc it refers to a const char*/std::string

Something like this:

enum class string_enum {
    A = "A",
    B = "B"
};

Do I have to use a struct or is there a better option?

[marsh gull]

You can either use a map (unordered, flat, whatever) taking enums values as keys and the corresponding strings as values, or use magic_enum to benefit from reflection at compile time

Note that magic_enum has a few restrictions though (you can read them in the README of the library)