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BPOOR enum not supporting hyphens?
Hi,
I am trying to create an enum datatype for relationships. Below is the code I am using:
public Enum Enum_RelationShipCode {Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Uncle, Aunt, Brother-In-Law, Daughter-In-Law, Child}
However, I am getting compile errors when trying to save the class as below.
Expecting '}' but was: '-'
Unexpected Token ','.
Unexpected Token '}'
Can someone help? It appears that Salesforce enums are not supporting hyphens in them.
I am trying to create an enum datatype for relationships. Below is the code I am using:
public Enum Enum_RelationShipCode {Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Uncle, Aunt, Brother-In-Law, Daughter-In-Law, Child}
However, I am getting compile errors when trying to save the class as below.
Expecting '}' but was: '-'
Unexpected Token ','.
Unexpected Token '}'
Can someone help? It appears that Salesforce enums are not supporting hyphens in them.
Apex does not support hyphens.
Thanks.
as far as I know you can't do this in code, cause hyphens cause compilation problems, specifically "Unexpected token".
What you could do is create a array or map of string with these values that have hyphen inside and leave the enum only with others values.
For example:
Using a array would look like this:
List<String> lstRelationShipCode = new List<String>{'Brother-In-Law', 'Daughter-In-Law'};
and so you access the values by the index lstRelationShipCode .get(0) //that return is 'Brother-In-Law'
Using a map would look like this:
Map<String, String> mapRelationShipCode = new Map<String, String>{'Brother-In-Law' => 'Brother-In-Law', 'Daughter-In-Law' => 'Daughter-In-Law'};
and so you access the values by the key mapRelationShipCode.get('Brother-In-Law');
I don't know if this is good for you, but enum with hyphen don't work.
You can also replace hyphen by "_", that would look like this:
public Enum Enum_RelationShipCode {Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Uncle, Aunt, Brother_In_Law, Daughter_In_Law, Child}
Hope it helps, if yes please mark the answer as the best.
Thks.