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Ccorock
Ccorock

Reputation: 892

Passing a variable to an Enum

I'm looping through a collection of rows ordered by a field called "rIndex". I've created an Enum and assigned the name of the item to the number I want the index to be. For example

Public Enum RowOrder

RowA = 1 RowB = 3 RowC = 2

I'm using a select case to properly identify the rows I want out of the collection. 

for each row in collection

Select Case row

Case rowA, rowB, rowC
row.rIndex = RowOrder.( 'I want to put the variable row name here, something like row.tostring ) 

Case Else 
'Do nothing  

next row

Does anyone know how to pass a variable to the field of an Enum so it will return its number?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 260

Answers (1)

Emmanuel N
Emmanuel N

Reputation: 7449

Just need to cast your enum variable to int

Dim value As Integer = CInt([Enum].Parse(GetType(RowOrder), [Enum].GetName(GetType(RowOrder), myRowOrder)))

Upvotes: 1

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