How to assign string values to enums and use that value in a switch

Question

Basically a series of titles will be passed into the switch statement and I need to compare them against the string values of the enum. But I have little to no idea how to do th

Answer 1

Enumerations cannot be of string type.

The approved types for an enum are byte, sbyte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, or ulong.

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