Re: Smart way to connect enums to string values

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From: Henke (henke_nord_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:59:11 +0200

Yeh, that's ok as long as you want the same string as your enum-name. But
since I'm from sweden and code in english but want's my displayed enum
strings in swedish I can't do it that way.

Any other good ideas?
/Henke

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> "Henke" <henke_nord@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi!
>> Has anyone a nice way to connect a enum to a string value.
>> Now I declare a const string [] in the same class as my enum is defined.
>> But I doubt that's the "object oriented" way of doing it.
>> Any better suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance?
>> /Henke
>>
>
> I don't know if I understand your question well, but you might like to
> have a look at the
> Enum.ToString() and Enum.Parse() functions, like:
>
> enum Test { One, Two, Three };
>
> public static void Main(string[] args)
> {
> Test tst = Test.One;
> string str = tst.ToString();
> Test tst2 = (Test) Enum.Parse(typeof(Test), str);
>
> Console.WriteLine("tst = {0}\nstr = {1}\ntst2 = {2}", tst, str, tst2);
> }
>
> HTH,
> Stefan
>

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