I am working on a basic Battleship game to help my C# skills. Right now I am having a little trouble with enum. I have:
enum game : int
{
a=1,
b=2,
c=3,
}
I would like the player to pass the input "C" and some code return the integer 3. How would I set it up for it to take a string var (string pick;) and convert it to the correct int using this enum? The book I am reading on this is bit confusing
Just parse the string and cast to int.
var number = (int)((game) Enum.Parse(typeof(game), pick));
// convert string to enum, invalid cast will throw an exception
game myenum =(game) Enum.Parse(typeof(game), mystring );
// convert an enum to an int
int val = (int) myenum;
// convert an enum to an int
int n = (int) game.a;
If you're not sure that the incoming string would contain a valid enum value, you can use Enum.TryParse() to try to do the parsing. If it's not valid, this will just return false, instead of throwing an exception.
jp
The answer is fine but the syntax is messy.
Much neater is something like this:
public DataSet GetBasketAudit(enmAuditPeriod auditPeriod)
{
int auditParam =Convert.ToInt32(auditPeriod) ;
intandintis the default, so you don't need to make it explicit. Just saying.