Convert String to Enum

Hi,

Today, I will show you how you can convert the Enum type to a string in .Net. In my demo, I use C#.

Say for example, you have a dropdown where values and texts are list of genders (Male, Female, Gay, Tomboy, Idk),...

and you want to get its preferred partner based on the selected drop down.

public enum Gender
{
MALE,
FEMALE,
GAY,
TOMBOY,
IDK
}


public class Dummy
{
public string GetPreferredPartner(Gender g)
{
if(g == g.MALE)
return "pretty woman";
else if(g == g.FEMALE)
return "handsome guy";
else if(g == g.GAY)
return "macho man";
else if(g == g.TOMBOY)
return "hot mama";
else if(g == g.IDK)
return "macho man";

}
}




//get the selected gender from the drop down
string strGender = this.ddlGender.SelectedValue;

///Here is the conversion of string to an Enumeration
Gender gender = (Gender)Enum.Parse(typeof(Gender), strGender, true);

//the first parameter is the Enum type you want your string to convert to
//the second is the string which will be converted to the specified Enum type
//the third parameter is to determine if the string is case sensitive

That's all, thank you.

-Jygz
jjygot@gmail.com

.Net Equivalent of PHP's implode and explode function

Hi,

Lots of developers from PHP who study/migrate to ASP.Net have problems figuring out how would they implode an array of strings, or explode a string to array. Like me, this situation came out during my study in ASP.Net, I wondered what was the equivalent of PHP implode and explode function in .Net. And then I found out, that in .Net you can achieve this using the .Net's built-in string functions: Join function for implode, and string Split function for explode. To illustrate more, I make a sample code as shown below:

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///Assumed that you have two labels for display: lblColors, lblFruits
//****IMPLODE/JOIN****\\
//sample string of colors
string[] arrColors = {"red","orange","yellow","green","blue","indigo","violet"};
//implode/join the colors array using "and" and store it to a string variable
string strImplodedColors = String.Join(" and ", arrColors);
//display the imploded/joined to the colors label
this.lblColors.Text = "The colors of the rainbow are: " + strImplodedColors;


//****EXPLODE/SPLIT****\\
//sample string for comma-separated fruits
string strFruits = "avocado, apple, mango, grapes, banana";
//separator for the string
char[] separator = {','};
//explode/split the string and store it to a string array
string[] arrFruits = strFruits.Split(separator);
string strFavFruitDisplay = "Below are my top favorite fruits:
";
int i = 1;//iterator for counting display
//loop or iterate for each string in the exploded string
foreach(string strFruit in arrFruits)
{
//add each fruit to the display string
strFavFruitDisplay += i.ToString() + ". " + strFruit + "
";
i++;
}
//display the favorite fruits
this.lblFruits.Text = strFavFruitDisplay;

The above code is C#, if you want a VB version of it, just go to this URL: http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/

copy the code and convert it. It will allow you to easily convert C#.Net codes to VB.Net and vice versa.

Try it!

jjygot@gmail.com