How to typeset the formatted counter in compactenum (paralist)?

Question

I am using the compactenum environment from the paralist package, and would like to know how I can typeset the counter.

What I mean is

\begin{compactenum}[a)]
\item I would like to typeset "a)" here.
\end{compactenum}

I was trying to read through the documentation but couldn't figure out which macro stores the counter.

Also, in this case, I don't want to build a reference, because I am only asking for the item label inside that item, i.e., when that counter is at that particular value.

Answer 1

Use \labelenumi (resp. \labelenumii, ..., \labelenumiv for nested environments).

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{paralist}

\begin{document}

\begin{compactenum}[a)]
\item I would like to typeset ``\labelenumi'' here.
\end{compactenum}

\end{document}