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Thread: Enumerations help

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    Default Enumerations help

    I have created an enumerated data type that represents months. In my program I have asked the user for the month. I hold the month entered by user into a string variable. From that string variable I'm trying to display the month using my enumerated data type. I know I can use if statements, but is there another simple way to do it?

    import java.util.Scanner;
    public class demo {
     
    	//Enum class called month that has constants in it representing months
    	enum month{january,february,march,april,may,june, july,august,september,
    		october,november, december};
     
    	public static void main(String[] args)
    	{
    		//Create a scanner object that reads from the user
    		Scanner keyboard=new Scanner(System.in);
     
    		//Ask user for month
    		System.out.print("Type Month: ");
     
    		//String variable to hold what month user types
    		String user_month;
     
    		//user types in their month
    		user_month=keyboard.nextLine();
     
    		//how can i display the month on he console?
     
    		System.out.print(month.user_month);//error is on month.user_month
    											//user_month cannot be resolved
     
     
    	}
     
    }


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    Default Re: Enumerations help

    You could use a Map Strings to Months.

    Map<String, Month> monthMap = new HashMap<String, Month>();
    monthMap.put("January", Month.january);
    //etc
     
    String userMonth = "January";
    Month enumMonth = monthMap.get(userMonth); //returns Month.january
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    Default Re: Enumerations help

    public class Demo {
     
        public enum Month {
     
            JANUARY(1), FEBRUARY(2), MARCH(3), APRIL(4), MAY(5), JUNE(6), JULY(7), AUGUST(8), SEPTEMBER(9), OCTOBER(10), NOVEMBER(11), DECEMBER(12);
            int numMonth;
     
            private Month(int numMonth) {
                this.numMonth = numMonth;
            }
        };
     
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            //Enum value...
            Month month;
     
            //Read in Scanner
            Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
     
            System.out.println("What Month?");
            //Keyboard Entry
            String userMonth;
            userMonth = keyboard.nextLine();
               //Displays what user types
            System.out.println(String.format("User entered: %s", userMonth));
            try { //use a try catch because Month.valueOf() throws IllegalArgumentException if it can't find the string.
     
                month = Month.valueOf(userMonth.toUpperCase().trim());
                System.out.println(String.format("Month: %s; Numeric Value of %s: %d", month.toString(), month.toString(), month.numMonth));
            } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
                System.out.println("The user input wasn't a month");
     
            }
     
        }
     
    }

    I commented the code. This should help you with whatever you are doing.