Iterate through Enum values

[Mark]

Assume you've declared an enum ....

public enum MyEnum { First, Second, Third }

Without knowing the values of the enum, is it possible to iterate through
all the possible values programmatically?

Thanks in advance.

Mark

[Doug Holton]

Mark wrote:

Assume you've declared an enum ....

public enum MyEnum { First, Second, Third }

Without knowing the values of the enum, is it possible to iterate through
all the possible values programmatically?

Use the static System.Enum.GetNames method.

enum Color:
Red
Green
Blue

for item in System.Enum.GetNames(typeof(Color)):
print item

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Mark,
You can use Enum.GetValues to get the list of values that belong to an Enum.
You can use Enum.GetNames to get the list of names of the values that belong
to an Enum.

Something like (untested):

foreach(MyEnum value in Enum.GetValues(typeof(MyEnum)))
{
// do something interesting with the value...
}

Hope this helps
Jay

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Assume you've declared an enum ....

public enum MyEnum { First, Second, Third }

Without knowing the values of the enum, is it possible to iterate through
all the possible values programmatically?

Thanks in advance.

Mark