Get the string value that is associated with an Enum?

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I have an enum

public enum BookType
{
    Old = 'O',
    New = 'N',
    All = 'B'
}

What I need to do is get the value of the char in the enum. For example if the enum is set to:

BookType bt = BookType.New

I need to get the value of new "N"

string val = (???)bt;

I need val = N

What is the best way to do this? If it was an int easy, just cast to int.

Thanks.

porges · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-12 03:00:39Z

5

The values associated with your enum are still ints, you've just set using a character literal. If you want to recover this value as a string, you can cast the enum value to a char and then convert that to a string:

string val = ((char)bt).ToString();

answered May 12, 2011 at 3:00

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SLaks · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-12 02:59:22Z

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You can just cast to char.
After casting to char, you'll need to call ToString() to convert the char to a string:

string val = ((char)bt).ToString();

answered May 12, 2011 at 2:59

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