Casting string to enum

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I m reading file content and take string at exact location like this   string fileContentMessage   File ReadAllText filename  Substring 411  3     Output will always be either Ok or Err  On the other side I have MyObject which have ContentEnum like this  public class MyObject              public enum ContentEnum   Ok   1  Err   2                  public ContentEnum Content   get  set            Now  on the client side I want to use code like this  to cast my string fileContentMessage to Content property   string fileContentMessage   File ReadAllText filename  Substring 411  3        MyObject myObj   new MyObject                 Content

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NET 4 0  has a generic Enum TryParse  ContentEnum content  Enum TryParse fileContentMessage  out content

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Have a look at using something like  Enum TryParse      Converts the string representation of the name or numeric value of one   or more enumerated constants to an equivalent enumerated object  A   parameter specifies whether the operation is case-sensitive  The   return value indicates whether the conversion succeeded    or   Enum Parse     Converts the string representation of the name or numeric value of one   or more enumerated constants to an equivalent enumerated object

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Use Enum Parse     var content    ContentEnum Enum Parse typeof ContentEnum   fileContentMessage

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As an extra  you can take the Enum Parse answers already provided and put them in an easy-to-use static method in a helper class   public static T ParseEnum lt T gt  string value        return  T Enum Parse typeof T   value  ignoreCase  true       And use it like so        Content   ParseEnum lt ContentEnum gt  fileContentMessage        Especially helpful if you have lots of  different  Enums to parse

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