Hi,

Can I have enum contain strings?

Thank you,
Alan

Alan,
Afraid not. Integral types only (except char) - sbyte, byte, short, ushort,
int, uint, long and ulong.

All the Best,
Phil.

"A.M-SG" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can I have enum contain strings?
>
> Thank you,
> Alan
>
>
>

No. But if you name them right, you can use myenum.ToString() to get a
string value that might compare to what you want.

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> Hi,
>
> Can I have enum contain strings?
>
> Thank you,
> Alan
>
>

Alan,

As others have mentioned, no, you can not. In this situation, what I
like to do is declare an enumeration, and then apply attributes to the
values of the enumeration (after all, they are static fields) which I
retrieve at runtime to get the information I need.

Hope this helps.


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"A.M-SG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Can I have enum contain strings?
>
> Thank you,
> Alan
>
>

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Alan,
>
> As others have mentioned, no, you can not. In this situation, what I
> like to do is declare an enumeration, and then apply attributes to the
> values of the enumeration (after all, they are static fields) which I
> retrieve at runtime to get the information I need.

Are you thinking of somethine like:

public enum Goups
{
sCH3,
etc.
}

GroupAttributes ga = new GroupAttributes (etc.)

GroupAttributes [] gaArray = new etc.

gaArray[(int)sCH3] = ga;

In words: (1) make enum (2) use enum to refer to attributes stored in an
array
???????
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> --
> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
> - (E-Mail Removed)
>
> "A.M-SG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Can I have enum contain strings?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Alan
>>
>>
>
>

apm,

No, I'm thinking something more like this:

public class MyAttribute : Attribute
{
// You can put other stuff in here.
}

public enum Goups
{
[field:MyAttribute]
sCH3
}

You can then write a generic routine that takes the enumeration value,
as well as the attribute to return, and return it. It works pretty well.


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"apm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Alan,
>>
>> As others have mentioned, no, you can not. In this situation, what I
>> like to do is declare an enumeration, and then apply attributes to the
>> values of the enumeration (after all, they are static fields) which I
>> retrieve at runtime to get the information I need.
>
> Are you thinking of somethine like:
>
> public enum Goups
> {
> sCH3,
> etc.
> }
>
> GroupAttributes ga = new GroupAttributes (etc.)
>
> GroupAttributes [] gaArray = new etc.
>
> gaArray[(int)sCH3] = ga;
>
> In words: (1) make enum (2) use enum to refer to attributes stored in an
> array
> ???????
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>> - (E-Mail Removed)
>>
>> "A.M-SG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can I have enum contain strings?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>