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My program gets an enum from file, writes it to a header (or source, if you so choose...) in a class, and provides a couple of member functions. One will retrieve a vector of strings containing all the enum values converted to strings, and the other will retrieve a specific enum value if you want to do it that way.
sounds like something that could have been more easily done in a higher level language, but it really doesn't matter. I've read C or text into a perl script that spits out some different C (eg, auto generating enums or reverse string versions thereof), lots of people do this for various purposes I believe. You could write a C/C++ compiler in C/C++ or some other language, not that this is quite the same but it is does demonstrate the machine is an effective tool this way (or can be).