[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:48:17PM -0500, eymanm wrote:
> But how you combine it with typical
> static const value_string MyValues[] = {
> { 1, "MV1" },
> { 2, "MV2" },
> { 3, "MV3" }
> };

You don't. Because you are not allowed to have an unterminated value_string array.
In case of a terminated value_string array, you use it like the example states:
val_to_str(2, MyValues, "%d not in MyValues") would return "MV2".

Ciao
    Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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