Getting the number of items in a enum

[UJ]

Is there a way to get the number of items that are in an enum? I'm trying to
find out how many items there are so that I can hit every one of them to
test.

TIA - Jeff.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

UJ wrote:

Is there a way to get the number of items that are in an enum? I'm trying to
find out how many items there are so that I can hit every one of them to
test.

Look at Enum.GetValues and Enum.GetNames.

Jon

[Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen]

> Is there a way to get the number of items that are in an enum? I'm

trying to find out how many items there are so that I can hit every
one of them to test.

TIA - Jeff.

Look at Enum.GetValues/GetNames

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[Hans Kesting]

> Is there a way to get the number of items that are in an enum? I'm trying to

find out how many items there are so that I can hit every one of them to
test.

TIA - Jeff.

enum Colors { Red, Green, Blue, Yellow };

foreach(string s in Enum.GetNames(typeof(Colors)))
Console.WriteLine(s);

There is also a GetValues(..)

Hans Kesting

[Nick Hounsome]

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Is there a way to get the number of items that are in an enum? I'm trying
to find out how many items there are so that I can hit every one of them
to test.

TIA - Jeff.

Enum.GetNames/GetValues is necessary as everyone hs said but might not be
sufficient because:

1) Duplicate values are allowed. This isn't really a problem but you might
want to weed out duplicate values.

2) The enum might have the FlagsAttribute in which case you need to OR
together all possible combinations.