Question

I have two Enumerations and a method that takes an enumeration as a parameter. They are called ABC and DEF and the method is called TestMethod(Enum myEnum). Code is below:

public enum ABC
{
    Zero = 0,
    One = 1,
    Two = 2
};

public enum DEF
{
    Three = 3,
    Four = 4,
    Five = 5
};

public int TestEnum(Enum myEnum)
{
    int returnValue = ??? // How do I get the value out of this enum that can be either ABC or DEF?
    bool randomTestBool = returnValue > 3;
    return returnValue
}

public void CallerFunction()
{
    int whatsMyInt = TestEnum(DEF.Four);
}

From CallerFunction() I call TestEnum() function and pass in one of the two (ideally way more) enumerations. I need to find out how to obtain the value in integer format so I can compare it within the function. Now, if this was a single type of an enumeration, i.e. if the function was TestEnum(DEF myDefEnum) then this would be easy, however, the function needs to handle multiple Enum types. Thanks to a previous response, I learned that to get a type of the enum I can do one of two things:

1) bool isThisDef = myEnum is DEF; but I am curious if there is a more universal way than creating a scenario for each and every Enum type. Perhaps something like this

2) Type myEnumType = myEnum.GetType(); but I am not sure what to do with this now. Any help is greatly appreciated. =) By the way, string testString = myEnum.toString(); genereates an error :\

Answer 1

public int TestEnum(Enum myEnum)
{
    return (int)(object)myEnum;
}