Get value of enum member by its name?

Question

Say that I have variable whose value (for example, "listMovie") is the name of an enum member:

public enum Movies {     regMovie = 1,     listMovie = 2 // member whose value I want } 

In this example, I would like to get the value 2. Is this possible? Here is what I tried:

public static void getMoviedata(string KeyVal) {     if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), KeyVal))     {         //Can print the name but not value         ((TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies)2).ToString(); //list         Enum.GetName(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), 2);     } } 

Answer 1

Assuming that KeyVal is a string representing the name of a certain enum you could do this in the following way:

int value = (int)Enum.Parse(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), KeyVal); 

Answer 2

You want to get the Enum value from the string name. So you can use the Enum.Parse method.

int number = (int)Enum.Parse(typeof(TestAppAreana.MovieList.Movies), KeyVal) 

You can also try Enum.TryParse to check whether parsing is successful or not.

Movies movie; if (Enum.TryParse(KeyVal, true, out movie)) {  }