Enum or Struct Help: Working with String Values

[Chevron Boyde]

Hi There

I have some codes that represent Sale Types i.e. A = On Account, C = Cash, D
= Debtor, V = Voucher

I want to create an enum or struct to work with the logical names like
"Cash" as opposed to "C"

I see the enums cannot work with string values like
public enum SaleType
{
OnAccount = "A",
Cash = "C"
}

Is there another way to do this, maybe with structs? Yet structs seem to
need Constructors to set the public properties/public variables.

Any tips appreciated,

Chev

[Anthony Jones]

Re: Enum or Struct Help: Working with String Values

"Chevron Boyde" <samuel@buzzjui cebars.comwrote in message
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Hi There
>
I have some codes that represent Sale Types i.e. A = On Account, C = Cash,

D

= Debtor, V = Voucher
>
I want to create an enum or struct to work with the logical names like
"Cash" as opposed to "C"
>
I see the enums cannot work with string values like
public enum SaleType
{
OnAccount = "A",
Cash = "C"
}
>
Is there another way to do this, maybe with structs? Yet structs seem to
need Constructors to set the public properties/public variables.
>

Here is a simplistic solution:-

public static class SaleType
{
public static readonly string OnAccount = "A";
public static readonly string Cash = "C";
}

However you can't use this to type a variable as you would an enum

IOW this is an error:-

SaleType x = SaleType.Cash

it would need to be:-

string x = SaleType.Cash


--
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

[Dave Shooter]

Re: Enum or Struct Help: Working with String Values

"Chevron Boyde" <samuel@buzzjui cebars.comwrote in message
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Hi There
>
I have some codes that represent Sale Types i.e. A = On Account, C = Cash,
D = Debtor, V = Voucher
>
I want to create an enum or struct to work with the logical names like
"Cash" as opposed to "C"
>
I see the enums cannot work with string values like
public enum SaleType
{
OnAccount = "A",
Cash = "C"
}
>
Is there another way to do this, maybe with structs? Yet structs seem to
need Constructors to set the public properties/public variables.
>
Any tips appreciated,
>
Chev

Maybe you could use the codes as the enum elements then use the
[Description] attribute on the elements of the enum to get meaningful names:

using System;
using System.Componen tModel;

public enum SaleType
{
[Description("On Account")]
A,
[Description("Ca sh")]
C,
[Description("De btor")]
D,
[Description("Vo ucher")]
V
}

I have a class in my toolbox (which admittedly I 'found' somewhere) which
can then return the description if one has been defined:

using System;
using System.Componen tModel;
using System.Reflecti on;

namespace MyCompanyUtils
{
public static class EnumInfo
{
public static string GetElementDescr iption(Enum value)
{
FieldInfo fi = value.GetType() .GetField(value .ToString());
DescriptionAttr ibute[] attributes =
(DescriptionAtt ribute[])fi.GetCustomAt tributes(
typeof(Descript ionAttribute), false);
return (attributes.Len gth 0) ? attributes[0].Description :
value.ToString( );
}
}
}

class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
SaleType st = SaleType.A;
Console.WriteLi ne(EnumInfo.Get ElementDescript ion(st));
// Output: On Account
}
}


Hope this helps.

David

[Chevron Boyde]

Re: Enum or Struct Help: Working with String Values

Thanks Tony!

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"Chevron Boyde" <samuel@buzzjui cebars.comwrote in message
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>Hi There
>>
>I have some codes that represent Sale Types i.e. A = On Account, C =
>Cash,

D

>= Debtor, V = Voucher
>>
>I want to create an enum or struct to work with the logical names like
>"Cash" as opposed to "C"
>>
>I see the enums cannot work with string values like
>public enum SaleType
>{
> OnAccount = "A",
> Cash = "C"
>}
>>
>Is there another way to do this, maybe with structs? Yet structs seem to
>need Constructors to set the public properties/public variables.
>>

>
Here is a simplistic solution:-
>
public static class SaleType
{
public static readonly string OnAccount = "A";
public static readonly string Cash = "C";
}
>
However you can't use this to type a variable as you would an enum
>
IOW this is an error:-
>
SaleType x = SaleType.Cash
>
it would need to be:-
>
string x = SaleType.Cash
>
>
--
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET
>
>