Cast inside LINQ clause ANY

myClass
{
.....
.....
public XyzEnum Profession { get; set; }
....
}

I’m trying to use LINQ on list of objects like this.

if(myClassList.Any(x => x.Profession = XyzEnum.SpecificProfession))
{
.....
}

I want to compare int values of enum. How to Cast x.Profession in above code to int? Below code doesn’t work.

if(myClassList.Any(x => (int)x.Profession = (int)XyzEnum.SpecificProfession))
    {
    .....
    }

My aim is to check if specific Profession exist inside list or not.

>Solution :

Seems you mixed up assignment (which is =) with comparison (which is ==). Casting anything to int will therefor have no effect.

So what you presumably need is this:

if(myClassList.Any(x => x.Profession == XyzEnum.SpecificProfession) ...

If your enum can have multiple values, you’re better of using the Enum.HasFlag-method, in order to check if your enum-value contains a specific value:

if(myClassList.Any(x => x.Profession.HasFlag(XyzEnum.SpecificProfession)) ...

However that assumes your enum-values are marked as Flags:

[Flags]enum MyEnum
{
    One = 0,
    Two = 1,
    Three = 2,
    Four = 4,
    Five = 8 // and so on
}