Enumerator special characters problem

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Hello, I have a problem creating an enumerator for some special characters...

So how can I achive the following(if its possible of course):

C#

public enum MyEnumerator
{
    InboundDocument = ->,
    OutbountDocument = <-,
    MyOwnDocument = v 
}

Thank you for your answer...

Posted 10-Jul-12 22:28pm

pykos

Updated 10-Jul-12 22:40pm

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Rahul Rajat Singh 11-Jul-12 4:36am

Your question is not clear. and what is this code you provided. This is now how an enum is defined.

pykos 11-Jul-12 4:41am

Sorry I mixed the order, the question is how to use "->" this kind of character in enumerator?

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Solution 3

I think this might work

C#

public enum MyEnumerator
{
    [Description("->")]
    InboundDocument = 0,
    [Description("<-")]
    OutbountDocument = 1,
    [Description("V")]
    MyOwnDocument = 2
}

Thanks...

Posted 10-Jul-12 22:48pm

pykos

Solution 4

After you clarification you probably need something like this:

C#

public sealed class DocumentFlowDirections
	{
	    public const string InboundDocument = "->";
	    public const string OutbountDocument = "<-";
	    public const string MyOwnDocument = "v"; 
	}

Posted 10-Jul-12 23:03pm

Zoltán Zörgő

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10T22:40:00

That is not how enum works. Enum can map an integral value to named constants, that are identifiers, thus have to conform to following syntax rules: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664670(v=vs.71).aspx[^]. On the other hand, values has to be integral type, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sbbt4032(v=vs.80).aspx[^]
You can however add attributes, and read them with reflection. Look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3916914/c-sharp-using-numbers-in-an-enum[^]

Parwej Ahamad · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10T22:35:00

Solution 1

Tried Display name OR Description enum attribute

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.displaynameattribute.aspx[^]

Posted 10-Jul-12 22:35pm

Parwej Ahamad