Escaping a dot in c#

Question

I am trying to define an enumerator for UserAgents.

Something like,

private enum UserAgents
    {
        "MSIE 7.0",
        "MSIE 6.0",
        "MSIE 5.0",
    }

But the compiler is not happy with this.

Any ideas why?

EDIT: I also tried like escaping using a verbatim literal @ and a '\' but that does not do the job.

@All: Oops. My bad. Wrong usage of Enums. But, how to delete the question ? — now he who must not be named., Feb 27 '14 at 09:12
this is also might help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/424366/c-sharp-string-enums — Izikon, Feb 27 '14 at 09:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '14 at 09:12

That's not how enums work.

You need something like this:

private enum UserAgents
{
    MSIE70,
    MSIE60,
    MSIE50
}

But then you have to worry about getting the string value out of it, the flags don't match the string representation either. You could decorate them with DescriptionAttributes but then you still have to do all the work to pull the string out.

Best thing to do would be to define a static class UserAgents with public static readonly fields for each user agent type:

public static UserAgents
{
   public static readonly MSIE70 = "MSIE 7.0"; 
   //etc...
}

Then you can do UserAgents.MSIE70 to access the field.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '14 at 09:06

2

private enum UserAgents
{
    MSIE70,
    MSIE60,
    MSIE50,
}

Try this!

answered Feb 27 '14 at 09:06

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