Passing a variable to an Enum

Question

I'm looping through a collection of rows ordered by a field called "rIndex". I've created an Enum and assigned the name of the item to the number I want the index to be. For example

Public Enum RowOrder

RowA = 1 RowB = 3 RowC = 2

I'm using a select case to properly identify the rows I want out of the collection.

for each row in collection

Select Case row

Case rowA, rowB, rowC
row.rIndex = RowOrder.( 'I want to put the variable row name here, something like row.tostring ) 

Case Else 
'Do nothing  

next row

Does anyone know how to pass a variable to the field of an Enum so it will return its number?

I would think an Enum being just an array would have some kind of method to search through it, or at least an exposed function to harvest this information from it. — Ccorock, Nov 05 '12 at 19:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '12 at 19:54

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Just need to cast your enum variable to int

Dim value As Integer = CInt([Enum].Parse(GetType(RowOrder), [Enum].GetName(GetType(RowOrder), myRowOrder)))

answered Nov 05 '12 at 19:54

Emmanuel N

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/852141/parse-a-string-to-an-enum-value-in-vb-net – Ccorock Nov 05 '12 at 19:56
Found the above just as you were answering. Thanks for the assistance. – Ccorock Nov 05 '12 at 19:56

Passing a variable to an Enum

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