adding a value in enum programmatically ?

Question

Thanks for your attention and time,

Kindly guide how to add a value/ option in enum at run time programmatically.

Thanks in anticipation,
haansi

Answer 1

You can cast an enum to most any integral value that you want.
But, you cannot add new items to the enumeration itself.
By definition, it is a constant.

The short is 'no', you cannot add to an enumeration at runtime.

Rudy  =8^D

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Answer 2

Try using a list object for the same functionality and you can manipulate that in runtime

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Answer 3

Rudy is right.  And there is no point in doing so.  An enum is very useful to declare a type-safe identifier instead of using a plain number.  It makes the code much more readable and it helps you to avoid using the wrong number.  But if you need to represent a value at runtime that you cannot declare up front then you should use a plain int.

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