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sl3dg3
sl3dg3

Reputation: 5180

Value of an Enum

I'm little bit confused: Is this really the only method to read a value from an Enum-Code?

(int)Enum.Parse(typeof(MyEnum), MyEnumCode.ToString())

Something such essential and no better way to get the value?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 563

Answers (5)

Cine
Cine

Reputation: 4392

No, you can just cast to int directly:

(int)MyEnum.MyEnumCode

Elaborating a bit. Internally an enum is actually an int. Therefore the cast is free. But it also means that you can easily have values in your enum that doesn't exist. E.g.

MyEnum val = (MyEnum)-123544;

Is perfectly valid code.

Upvotes: 7

FarligOpptreden
FarligOpptreden

Reputation: 5043

What is it you want to achieve? Do you want the integer value associated with an enum? You can just cast the enum to int...

(int)MyEnum.MyEnumCode;

Upvotes: 2

Øyvind Bråthen
Øyvind Bråthen

Reputation: 60684

What about

(int)MyEnumCode?

The underlying type for enum is int by default, so you can simply cast it.

Upvotes: 1

Ralf de Kleine
Ralf de Kleine

Reputation: 11734

Try this:

int x = MyEnumCode as int;
string y = MyEnumCode.ToString();
int z = (int)MyEnumCode;

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Hilgarth
Daniel Hilgarth

Reputation: 174289

I don't know, what you mean by "Enum-Code", but why not just convert it to an int?

int value = (int)MyEnum.MyEnumCode;

Upvotes: 15

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