How to loop through an enum in C#

Sajeev Hegde

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How to loop through an enum in C#

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Rajanikant Hawaldar4y ago
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In C# an enum is used to assign constant names to a group of numeric integer values. It makes constant values more readable, for example, WeekDays.Monday is more readable than number 0 when referring to the day in a week.An enum can be looped through using Enum.GetNames(), Enum.GetNames(), Enum.GetValues(), or Enum.GetValues() static methods with the foreach loop.The following example gets the names of an enum using the Enum.GetNames() method.
Mahesh Chand4y ago
Check this out:
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/top-7-c-sharp-enum-enumeration-code-examples/


var values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(Foos));

OR


var values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(Foos)).Cast();  
 Generic helper function


public static class EnumUtil {  
    public static IEnumerable GetValues() {  
        return Enum.GetValues(typeof(T)).Cast();  
    }  
}  
usage


var values = EnumUtil.GetValues();