Enumeration string representations

[Frank Moyles]

If I have an enumeration:

enum SizeType
{
Tiny = 0,
Small,
Big,
Massive,
OMG
};
If I declare a variable like this:

SizeType myVar ;

I want to be able to print the appropriate string when I coerse/cast
myVar to string by calling the ToString() method - does anyone know how
I can "assign string values" to the enums (not technically correct), so
that the ff code:

SizeType myVar = SizeType.Tiny ;
//I'll just use C++ here, since I'm still learning C#
std::cout << "The enum mVar has a string representation of: '" <<
myVar.ToString( ) << "'\n";

Which should print the ff on stdio:

The enum mVar has a string representation of 'Tiny'

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Frank Moyles <fg******@nospa m.comwrote:

If I have an enumeration:

enum SizeType
{
Tiny = 0,
Small,
Big,
Massive,
OMG
};
If I declare a variable like this:

SizeType myVar ;

I want to be able to print the appropriate string when I coerse/cast
myVar to string by calling the ToString() method

This happens automatically. Here's a short but complete program to
demonstrate it:

using System;

enum SizeType
{
Tiny = 0,
Small,
Big,
Massive,
OMG
}

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
SizeType myVar = SizeType.Tiny;

Console.WriteLi ne(myVar);
}
}

The output is "Tiny".

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