Casting string to enum [duplicate]

I'm reading file content and take string at exact location like this

 string fileContentMessage = File.ReadAllText(filename).Substring(411, 3);

Output will always be either Ok or Err

On the other side I have MyObject which have ContentEnum like this

public class MyObject

    {
      public enum ContentEnum { Ok = 1, Err = 2 };        
      public ContentEnum Content { get; set; }
    }

Now, on the client side I want to use code like this (to cast my string fileContentMessage to Content property)

string fileContentMessage = File.ReadAllText(filename).Substring(411, 3);

    MyObject myObj = new MyObject ()
    {
       Content = /// ///,
    };

Use Enum.Parse().

var content = (ContentEnum)Enum.Parse(typeof(ContentEnum), fileContentMessage);

As an extra, you can take the Enum.Parse answers already provided and put them in an easy-to-use static method in a helper class.

public static T ParseEnum<T>(string value)
{
    return (T)Enum.Parse(typeof(T), value, ignoreCase: true);
}

And use it like so:

{
   Content = ParseEnum<ContentEnum>(fileContentMessage);
};

Especially helpful if you have lots of (different) Enums to parse.

.NET 4.0+ has a generic Enum.TryParse

ContentEnum content;
Enum.TryParse(fileContentMessage, out content);

Casting string to enum [duplicate]

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