C# - Iterating through enums

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Iterating through enums

Doug Martin

2004-03-28, 10:29 pm

Thought that I would post this to help anyone else that encounters the
same problem. It took a little while for my C-wired brain to figure
it out in C#.

Problem: I needed to enumerate over all possible values in a very
large and growing enumeration to make sure each one was handled later
in some code.

Solution:

# a big enumeration
enum Foo { one, two, three, ..., bazillon, };

foreach (int i in Enum.GetValues(typeof(Foo)))
{
Foo fooItem = (Foo) Enum.ToObject(typeof(Foo), i);
... code to use fooItem here ...
}

Hope this helps the next person that needs to do the same.

- Doug Martin

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