B2022-026 B2022-026 RO Memory reduction coding

PROMS/VEPROMS.CSLA.Library/EnumExtensions.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace VEPROMS.CSLA.Library
+{
+    public static class EnumExtensions
+    {
+        // Take a flag enum and extract the cleaned string values.
+        public static List<string> ToComparableStrings(this Enum eNum)
+            => eNum.ToString()
+                    .Split(',')
+                    .Select(str => str.ToCleanString())
+                    .ToList();
+
+        // Take an individual enum and report the textual value.
+        public static string ToComparableString(this Enum eNum)
+            => eNum.ToString()
+                   .ToCleanString();
+
+        // Take an individual enum and report the integer values as a comma delimited string
+        public static string ToCommaDelimString(this Enum eNum)
+        {
+            string retVal = string.Empty;
+
+            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(eNum.ToString()))
+            {
+                foreach (Enum f in Enum.GetValues(eNum.GetType()))
+                {
+                    if (eNum.ToString().Contains(f.ToString()))
+                    {
+                        retVal = (string.IsNullOrEmpty(retVal)) ? Convert.ToInt32(f).ToString() : string.Concat(retVal, ",", Convert.ToInt32(f));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            return retVal;
+        }
+
+        // Remove any spaces due to split and if `_` found change it to space.
+        public static string ToCleanString(this string str)
+            => str.Replace(" ", string.Empty)
+                  .Replace('_', ' ');
+    }
+}