How to sort an array of week days so that they appear as in a calendar week (in C#)?

Question

I have a text file being read into a string[] containing the days Monday to Friday, but in a random order. I want to sort them so they appear as they do in a calendar week.

I've tried Array.Sort() and Array.Reverse() but they don't work.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Just sort it by the corresponding value of enum DayOfWeek of your string, then return it back to a string.

string [] initialArray = {"Friday", "Monday", ... } ; 

string [] sortedArray = initialArray.OrderBy(s => Enum.Parse(typeof(DayOfWeek), s)).ToArray() ;