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

Just sharing my solution. By downloading the nuget package Extension.MV, a method is available for getting the string from a Enum Description

public enum Prefix
{
    [Description("doctor")]
    doctor = 1,
    [Description("mr")]
    mr = 2,
    [Description("mrs")]
    mrs = 3
}

public static class PrefixAdapter {

    public static string ToText(this Prefix prefix) {
        return prefix.GetEnumDescription();
    }

    public static Prefix ToPrefix(this string text) {
        switch (text)
        {
            case "doctor"
                return Prefix.doctor;
            case "mr"
                return Prefix.mr;
            case "ms"
                return Prefix.mrs;
        }
    }
}