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Navajyoth CS
Navajyoth CS

Reputation: 1038

Get value of enum member by its name?

Say that I have variable whose value (for example, "listMovie") is the name of an enum member:

public enum Movies
{
    regMovie = 1,
    listMovie = 2 // member whose value I want
}

In this example, I would like to get the value 2. Is this possible? Here is what I tried:

public static void getMoviedata(string KeyVal)
{
    if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), KeyVal))
    {
        //Can print the name but not value
        ((TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies)2).ToString(); //list
        Enum.GetName(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), 2);
    }
}

Upvotes: 44

Views: 94200

Answers (3)

Sachin
Sachin

Reputation: 40970

You want to get the Enum value from the string name. So you can use the Enum.Parse method.

int number = (int)Enum.Parse(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), KeyVal)

You can also try Enum.TryParse to check whether parsing is successful or not.

Movies movie;
if (Enum.TryParse(KeyVal, true, out movie))
{

}

Upvotes: 17

user1968030
user1968030

Reputation:

Use:

var val= (int)Enum.Parse(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), KeyVal)

Upvotes: 3

Paweł Bejger
Paweł Bejger

Reputation: 6366

Assuming that KeyVal is a string representing the name of a certain enum you could do this in the following way: 

int value = (int)Enum.Parse(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), KeyVal);

Upvotes: 90

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