I have a string
("Enum.PartType.Block")
I need this string to determine the shape of a part, but It's a string so I can't say-->
part.Shape = ("Enum.PartType.Block")
this would error.
So my question is how do you convert a string into an Enum value?
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.
local that = ("Enum.PartType.Block")
for i, v in next, Enum.PartType:GetEnumItems() do
if tostring(v) == that then
warn(v)
else
print(v)
end
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..
local that = ("Enum.PartType.Block")
local part -- define
enumFromString = function( str )
for i, v in next, Enum.PartType:GetEnumItems() do
if tostring(v) == that then
return v
end
end
end
local this = enumFromString(that)
part.Shape = this
local String = ("Enum.PartType.Block")
String = String:gsub("Enum%.PartType%.","")
print(String) --> "Block"
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Why not just do part.Shape = "Block"?
Because the string is the return of a format JSON save which is only composed of string values.