HasFlags always returns true for None (0) value in enum

喜夏-厌秋 提交于 2019-12-01 02:44:00

HasFlag is effectively this:

HasFlag = (GivenFlag & Value) == GivenFlag;

//"Anything" AND 0 == 0  --> always true

I've come up against this before myself. It's by design in the .NET Framework:

If the underlying value of flag is zero, the method returns true. If this behavior is not desirable, you can use the Equals method to test for equality with zero and call HasFlag only if the underlying value of flag is non-zero, as the following example illustrates.

You can read a little more about this in the MSDN article here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/system.enum.hasflag.aspx

There is already a plethora of answers describing WHY this happens, so I will just add that what you can do to get what you're looking for is to not use HasFlag in that case, but instead do var hasNone = myAnimals == Animals.None.

I personally really loathe extension methods, but it would be possible to put this in an extension on Enum if you really value being able to just write myOptionEnum.HasNoFlags(). I would just run with explicitly checking for the None value in this special case though.

Well Enum.HasFlags resolves as something like the following:

var hasNone = (myAnimals & Animals.None) == Animals.None

This will always be true for a zero-value-enum-field.

From MSDN

The HasFlag method returns the result of the following Boolean expression.

thisInstance And flag = flag

This is just the defined behavior of the HasFlag method. From the MSDN documentation

if the underlying value of flag is zero, the method returns true

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