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String to Enum?
I have a string
1 | ("Enum.PartType.Block") |
I need this string to determine the shape of a part, but It's a string so I can't say-->
1 | part.Shape = ("Enum.PartType.Block") |
this would error.
So my question is how do you convert a string into an Enum value?
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Why not just do part.Shape = "Block"? Perci1 4988 — 9y
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Because the string is the return of a format JSON save which is only composed of string values. ClassicTheBlue 65 — 9y
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If you want to get an EnumItem of a string in the format you've provided, I can only think of looping through the members of said Enum using its GetEnumItems method, and checking for matches.
1 | local that = ("Enum.PartType.Block") |
2 |
3 | for i, v in next, Enum.PartType:GetEnumItems() do |
4 | if tostring(v) == that then |
5 | warn(v) |
6 | else |
7 | print(v) |
8 | end |
9 | end |
If you want to be able to use the actual enumerated value, you could make a function to return the EnumItem from a provided string. It would work a little like the following..
01 | local that = ("Enum.PartType.Block") |
02 | local part -- define |
03 |
04 | enumFromString = function( str ) |
05 | for i, v in next, Enum.PartType:GetEnumItems() do |
06 | if tostring(v) == that then |
07 | return v |
08 | end |
09 | end |
10 | end |
11 |
12 | local this = enumFromString(that) |
13 | part.Shape = this |
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1 | local String = ("Enum.PartType.Block") |
2 |
3 |
4 | String = String:gsub("Enum%.PartType%.","") |
5 | print(String) --> "Block" |