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I want my enumeration to contain an entry like "Mail/Telephone Order". I am having an error due to the front slash character.

I have an enumeration and its structure looks like this:

public enum MerchantBusinessTypes
{
Mail/Telephone Order = 1,
Internet,
QSR/QPS

}

I am having an error to define entries like 'QSR/QPS' and 'Mail/Telephone Order '. How can I define such entries containig slash characters, spaces and the like?

Thanks in advance.

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PoeticAudio

you can't define them with slashes like that because that's a division operator. You might have to adjust your naming convention such as

public enum MerchantBusinessTypes
{
Mail_or_Telephone_Order = 1,
Internet,
QSR_Or_QPS
}

or the like

dstanley9

You can't in an enum, because they have to follow CLR member naming conventions (numbers, characters, and underscores). Other alternatives would be a dictionary (Hashtable or Dinctionary<>, for example) or to convert all special characters to underscores. I have done this where the enum values are displayed with spaced replacing the underscores:

public enum BusinessType
{
Corporation,
Limited_Liability_Company,
...
}

And at display time I convert the underscores to spaces. You'd have to come up with another token to represent slashes(

I want my enumeration to contain an entry like &quot;Mail/Telephone Order&quot;. I am having an error due to the front slash character.

I want my enumeration to contain an entry like "Mail/Telephone Order". I am having an error due to the front slash character.