public enum EGameDev
{
Why,
Does,
It,
Not,
Work
}
public EGameDev ThePeople = (EGameDev)"Work";[.net] (Enum)string
Author
I thought you could do this in C#...
I think you have to use reflection in order to do that. It does work with integers, but you'll have to initialize the first value to 0 to be sure you'll be able to cast.
It does work on switch statements however:
Toolmaker
It does work on switch statements however:
switch (str){ case "case a": break; case "case b": break;}Toolmaker
The syntax your looking for is
System.Enum.Parse(typeof(Enum Type Name), str);
Its possible you could write a type converter/overloaded operator that would let you use that (EnumTypeName)"string" syntax but I'm not really into operator overloading so I can't advise you on that.
System.Enum.Parse(typeof(Enum Type Name), str);
Its possible you could write a type converter/overloaded operator that would let you use that (EnumTypeName)"string" syntax but I'm not really into operator overloading so I can't advise you on that.
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