ADDITIONAL JAVA TOPICS - Java Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design - page 983

Example D-3 illustrates how these methods work.

EXAMPLE D-3

public class EnumExample1
{

enum Grades {A, B, C, D, F}; //Line 1

enum Sports {BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL,
GOLF, HOCKEY, SOCCER, TENNIS}; //Line 2

public static void main(String[] args) //Line 3

{

Grades myGrade; //Line 4

Sports mySport; //Line 5

myGrade = Grades.A; //Line 6

mySport = Sports.BASKETBALL; //Line 7

System.out.println("Line 8: My grade: "
+ myGrade); //Line 8

System.out.println("Line 9: The ordinal "
+ "value of myGrade is "
+ myGrade.ordinal()); //Line 9

System.out.println("Line 10: myGrade name: "
+ myGrade.name()); //Line 10

System.out.println("Line 11: My sport: "
+ mySport);

//Line 11

System.out.println("Line 12: The ordinal "
+ "value of mySport is "
+ mySport.ordinal()); //Line 12

System.out.println("Line 13: mySport name: "
+ mySport.name()); //Line 13

System.out.println("Line 14: Sports: "); //Line 14

for (Sports sp : Sports.values()) //Line 15

System.out.println(sp + "'s ordinal "
+ "value is "
+ sp.ordinal()); //Line 16

System.out.println(); //Line 17

}

}