Casting string to enum [duplicate]

Question

I'm reading file content and take string at exact location like this

 string fileContentMessage = File.ReadAllText(filename).Substring(411, 3); 

Output will always be either Ok or Err

On the other side I have MyObject which have ContentEnum like this

public class MyObject      {       public enum ContentEnum { Ok = 1, Err = 2 };               public ContentEnum Content { get; set; }     } 

Now, on the client side I want to use code like this (to cast my string fileContentMessage to Content property)

string fileContentMessage = File.ReadAllText(filename).Substring(411, 3);      MyObject myObj = new MyObject ()     {        Content = /// ///,     }; 

Answer 1

Use Enum.Parse().

var content = (ContentEnum)Enum.Parse(typeof(ContentEnum), fileContentMessage);