How to define an enum with string value?

Question

I am trying to define an Enum and add valid common separators which used in CSV or similar files. Then I am going to bind it to a ComboBox as a dat

Answer 1

A class that emulates enum behaviour but using string instead of int can be created as follows...

public class GrainType
{
    private string _typeKeyWord;

    private GrainType(string typeKeyWord)
    {
        _typeKeyWord = typeKeyWord;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return _typeKeyWord;
    }

    public static GrainType Wheat = new GrainType("GT_WHEAT");
    public static GrainType Corn = new GrainType("GT_CORN");
    public static GrainType Rice = new GrainType("GT_RICE");
    public static GrainType Barley = new GrainType("GT_BARLEY");

}

Usage...

GrainType myGrain = GrainType.Wheat;

PrintGrainKeyword(myGrain);

then...

public void PrintGrainKeyword(GrainType grain) 
{
    Console.Writeline("My Grain code is " + grain.ToString());   // Displays "My Grain code is GT_WHEAT"
}