Question

I have about 30 different flagged enums that I would like to put into an array for indexing and quick access. Let me also claify that I do not have 1 enum with 30 values but I have 30 enums with differing amounts of values.

The goal would be to add them to an array at a specifed index. This way I can write a functions in which I can pass the array index into for setting particuler values of the enum.

Updated:
Here is an example of what I am wanting to do.

enum main(
enum1 = 0,
enum2 = 1,
enumn = n-1 ) – this has indexs which would match the index of the associated enum

[flag]
enum1(value1=0, value2=1, value3=2, value4=4…)

[flag]
enum2(“”)

[flag]
enum2(“”)

since I am using flagable enums I have a class like the following

public static class CEnumWorker
{
   public static enum1 myEnum1 = enum1.value1;
   public static enum2 myEnum2 = enum2.value1;
   public static enumN myEnumN = enumN.value1;

   //I would then have functions that set the flags on the enums. I would like to access the enums through an array or other method so that I do not have to build a large switch statement to know which enum I am wanting to manipulate
}

Answer 1

Since you have 30 different types of enums, you can’t create a strongly typed array for them. The best you could do would be an array of System.Enum:

Enum[] enums = new Enum[] { enum1.Value1, enum2.Value2, etc };

You would then have to cast when pulling an enum out of the array if you need the strongly typed enum value.