I posted this in the VB forum several days ago, and got no reply. Since it's specific to VB.Net I thought I'd try it here. I'm a relatively-experienced VB programmer, but I'm still working on learning all of the .net things that I should know. So when I came across this one, I started to dig into it so see if I could figure it out...
Here's what I know about brackets - If they are used around a reserved word then that becomes a usable (escaped) name (i.e. Dim [String] as Integer). If they are used around a type in a DIM or NEW type statement then they're redundant and actually go away (i.e. Dim MyString as [String]).
Here's my problem:
There is at least one time in the documentation where brackets aren't used for escaping, nor do they seem to be redundant (an error occurs if they aren't there), but I can't seem to find documentation to tell me why they ARE needed (I hate it when I don't know WHY I should do things)!
Can anyone give me a reference where this is explained? Thanks!
Here's the code (Straight from the VS2005 help doc)
Confusing piece is on lines 13, 14, and 18 - "[Enum]" - Public Class ParseTest
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Enum Colors
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Red = 1
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Green = 2
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Blue = 4
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Yellow = 8
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End Enum
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Public Shared Sub Main()
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Dim colorName As String
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Console.WriteLine("The entries of the Colors Enum are:")
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For Each colorName In [Enum].GetNames(GetType(Colors))
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Console.WriteLine("{0}={1}", colorName, Convert.ToInt32([Enum].Parse(GetType(Colors), colorName)))
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Next colorName
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Console.WriteLine()
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Dim myOrange As Colors = CType([Enum].Parse(GetType(Colors), "Red, Yellow"), Colors)
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Console.WriteLine("The myOrange value {1} has the combined entries of {0}", myOrange, Convert.ToInt64(myOrange))
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End Sub
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End Class
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(code is from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/essfb559.aspx)
5 1466 Plater 7,872
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It almost looks like they're used to specifuy a typecast to a custom object (i.e. the custom enum of Colors you just made)
Or it might be similar to the Me. (or this. if you're in C#) like you suggested?
Have you tried running the code without the brackets?
Have you tried running the code without the brackets?
Sort of. Removing them gets an "Expression Expected" error. (An operator such as + or = requires an expression for its right operand, but no recognizable expression appears.Error ID: BC30201)
It almost looks like they're used to specify a typecast to a custom object (i.e. the custom enum of Colors you just made)Or it might be similar to the Me.
I thought that it might be a custom class that's part of System... Actually, I just tried "System.Enu m" instead of [Enum]... that worked with no error. So... does the bracket then look for an underlying version of an object, or does it relate to an imported class or...?
Plater 7,872
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Well i'm not sure, BUT I have always wondered if it was possible to itterate through an enum, so that looks pretty cool there.
Well I'm not sure, BUT I have always wondered if it was possible to iterate through an enum, so that looks pretty cool there.
Looks like you can!
I actually found the code in question while trying to help with an XML-ish text file save methodology I'm using to restore the value of an enum based on a text string. (e.g. the "Parse" function shown above.
I'll go under the assumption that the brackets are used to refer to an underlying imported class type that is also a keyword. (Unless someone else tells me different!)
Thanks!
Frinavale 9,735
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I'm looking into this more...it's something I don't know.
I just found out that if you type "enum" into the search function for the MSDN Library...it crashes...
But!
If you type [enum] for the search...
It doesn't crash
crazy...
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