String to enum conversion in C#

Question

I have a combo box where I am displaying some entries like:

Equals
Not Equals 
Less Than
Greater Than

Notice that these strings contain spa

Answer 1

Operation enumVal = (Operation)Enum.Parse(typeof(Operation), "Equals")

For "Not Equals", you obv need to replace spaces with underscores in the above statement

EDIT: The following version replaces the spaces with underscores before attempting the parsing:

string someInputText;
var operation = (Operation)Enum.Parse(typeof(Operation), someInputText.Replace(" ", "_"));