Question

I need to have a switch statement that will switch through a list of titles.
Would it be best to have a string[], enum, list, etc?
The list will constant and the values will not change.

And how would I implement an enum that switches through string values?

Answer 1

• string[] won’t work because you can’t switch on it and have each case be an element at index n.
• List<string> won’t work for the same reasons
• enum is rather standard practice, so I hear.

For an example of what I talk about in the first two instances:

switch(l)
{
    case l[0] == "boo":
        break;
}

Presents the compiler error:

A switch expression or case label must be a bool, char, string, integral, enum, or corresponding nullable type

And gladly, as I can’t imagine why someone would implement it this way.