type casting with enumerations

[Guest]

so let's say i have an array of strings like "Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednesday", etc...

and I'm writing a parser that parses a day from a string and for memory
consevartion instead of saving the string I want to convert it into an
enumeration like:

enum Days : sbyte { MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, etc ... }

So what's the best way to convert that "Monday" into a Days.MONDAY?

They are both at index 0 so I thought it would be easy but I can't figure it
out...

any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Peter Rilling]

How about Enum.Parse()?

 

[Truong Hong Thi]

Hi,

Enum.Parse has an option to ignore case. That is the best way if the
enum names and string values are equal ignoring case.
Otherwise:

They are both at index 0 so I thought it would be easy but I can't figure it
out...

If you can rely on index that way, use something similar to this:
string theDay = "Monday"; // or something else
Days theDay = (Days) Array.IndexOf(myStringArray, theDay);
(I omit the check Array.Index returns -1).

Otherwise, you then have to use "switch" statement.

Regards,
Thi