Using Numbers in an Enum **SOLVED**

[Sgt-Peppa]

Hey all, I am trying to use Numbers in my Enum, but I get an Error.

public enum myCode{100,200,300,....}

If I write plain text it works

public enum myCode{one,two,three,....}

Error says: Identifier expected!

Can anyone explain?

Thanks,

Stephan

[NoteMe]

Why whould you need numbers? An enum is used to give numbers a name, not to give numbers a new value?


What are you trying to do? do you know what an enum is?


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[Sgt-Peppa]

I have a couple of errorcodes that I want to provide for my Exception class! For example 100 = UserException.

So in the end I want to do something like this:

throw new CustomException(myCode.100);

What would be the best approach for something like that?

[NoteMe]

Isn't it easier to just remember the name then the error code anyway. So you can have an Enum like this:

		enum myCode : int {
			UserException = 100,
			NoteMeException,  //This will imply 101 as the number for this string
		}

Then you can do:

throw new CustomException((int)myCode.UserException);

You are then throwing an int, and the value of that int is 100.


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[Sgt-Peppa]

Yeah, that sound good, thanks for the help. Thats what I was looking for.

Thanks again,
Stephan

[NoteMe]

Any time for you Stephan..


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