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Using Enum.Parse()

Have you ever written any code along the lines of...

myEnum GetEnumValue(string EnumString)
{
    myEnum enumValue;
    switch (EnumString)
    {
        case "Value1":
            enumValue = myEnum.Value1;
            break;
        case "Value2":
            enumValue = myEnum.Value2;
            break;
        else:
            enumValue = myEnum.ValueNone;
    }
    return enumValue;
}

Embarrassingly, I did. Until I realised that the Enum class had a static method called Parse that can be used as follows...

myEnum GetEnumValue(string EnumString)
{
    return (myEnum)Enum.Parse(typeof(myEnum),EnumString);
}

Easy! Robust! and all that.

Author Dave Howard

I have been involved in IT development for the last 10 years - a lot of it around desktop applications and telecoms.

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