A device reports status of its limit switches as a series of ones a zeros (meaning a string containing "010111110000"). Ideal representation of these switches would be a flags enum like this:
[Flags] public enum SwitchStatus { xMin, xMax, yMin, yMax, aMax, bMax, cMax, unknown4, unknown3, unknown2, unknown1, unknown0 } Is it possible to convert the string representation to the enum? If so, how?
You can use Convert.ToInt64(value, 2) or Convert.ToInt32(value, 2) this will give you either the long or the int, then simply use
[Flags] public enum SwitchStatus : int // or long { xMin = 1, xMax = 1<<1, yMin = 1<<2, yMax = 1<<3, ... } SwitchStatus status = (SwitchStatus)Convert.ToInt32(value, 2); First you have to convert your "binary string" to int.
String binString = "010111110000"; int number = Integer.parseInt(binString, 2); You have to have declared your enum items with their respective numbers:
[Flags] public enum SwitchStatus { xMin = 1, xMax = 2, yMin = 4, //... unknown0 = 32 //or some other power of 2 } At last, the mapping. You get your enum from the number like this:
SwitchStatus stat = (SwitchStatus)Enum.ToObject(typeof(SwitchStatus), number); 
0x001 through 0x800.
SwitchStatus flags will not work properly numbered consecutively as you have them - you may as well remove the '[Flags] attribute. I still give +1 because of the usefulness of the answer.