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Status: Closed Points: 75 Time: 03:52 - Nov 24, 2006  

theDude

how to get enum by index in c#?

In C# want to access the enum values by the index and not having to make a switch/case statement.
How do I do that?

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theDude

Date:: Nov 24, 2006

Time:: 04:17

I tried this, but got an exception in the first line:

value is a string that contains the index

Array values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(MYENUM));
value = (string) values.GetValue(Convert.ToInt32(value));

PeterNZ

Date:: Nov 26, 2006

Time:: 16:24

Confusing!

This works for me:
enum MyEnum {One = 1, Two = 2, Three = 3, Four = 4};

static void Main(string[] args) {
string strIndex = "2";
string value;
Array values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(MyEnum));
value = values.GetValue(Convert.ToInt32(strIndex)).ToString();

Console.WriteLine(value);


Console.Read();
}

Cheers

Peter

theDude

Date:: Dec 15, 2006

Time:: 12:20

ah, i think i only assigned the names to the enum, without giving them a value.
I thought they automatically had an index from 0 and up...
Thanks for your help, Peter.

tikepatel

Date:: Dec 22, 2006

Time:: 07:30

Thank you very very much for ur detailed example which i want.

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