Question

I have a string variable with the value "Top;Left". Is it possible to easily parse this to Control.Anchor (without using if‘s)?

Enum.Parse doesn’t work because Anchor can take a value, for example, Top;Left;, but the AnchorEnum can only take Top, or Left, or Right, or Bottom, or None.

Answer 1

It’s easy to parse this without iterating over each option.

var s = "Top;Left";
s = s.Replace(";", ", ");
var e = Enum.Parse(typeof(AnchorStyles), s);

The only gotcha is it has to be comma separated, not semicolon.