Question

I have a List<string> with the following entries:

“Summer”, “Spring”, “Winter”

I’d like to write a .OrderBy() that orders them based on this:

public enum Term {
    Spring = 0, Summer, Fall, Winter, All
}

Thus, the result I’d like to see is:

“Spring”, “Summer”, “Winter”

EDIT – For clarification, not every client has ALL of the available terms, but I just want consistency in the sorting of the list.

Answer 1

var q = l.OrderBy (x => Enum.Parse(typeof(Term), x));