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A Java Enum is a special Java type used to define collections of constants. More precisely, a Java enum type is a special kind of Java class. An enum can contain constants, methods etc. Java enums were added in Java 5.
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Enum is enumeration will help you to define the group of related constant. It will increase the readability of the code. Enum FILEPERMISSION { NOACCESS, READONLY, READWRITE } Programmer can use the above enumeration in stead of using number 0 1 2. It will increase the readabilty of the code.
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Enum is actually set of named value called elements prototype - Enum Colour { blue, green, white} ; blue has a default value 0. greeen has value 1. white has value 2. u can also assign values to elements like Enum Colour { blue=1,green=10, white=30};
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Short for enumeration. Used to give numbering
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Enum Datatype consist of a set of named values. These values can be used in indexing expressions. The idea behind enumerated datatype is to create new data types that can take on only a restricted range of values
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ENUM IS used to declare named constant
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An enumeration is a user-defined data type consists of integral constants and each integral constant is give a name. Keyword enum is used to defined enumerated data type. enum type_name{ value1, value2,...,valueN }; Here, type_name is the name of enumerated data type or tag. And value1, value2,....,valueN...
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An enumeration is a user-defined data type consists of integral constants and each integral constant is give a name. Keyword enum is used to defined enumerated data type. enum type_name{ value1, value2,...,valueN }; Here, type_name is the name of enumerated data type or tag. And value1, value2,....,valueN are values of type type_name. By default, value1 will be equal to 0, value2 will be 1 and so on but, the programmer can change the default value. // Changing the default value of enum elements enum suit{ club=0; diamonds=10; hearts=20; spades=3; }; read less
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Enum helps you to create a data type, whose variables can only hold value from a Collection of Named constants that were defined along with the Enum. It helps programmer to easily identify constants. Also we can easily fetch and filter constant data using Enum.
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ENUM is an an enumerated data type it contain set of data values
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An enum is a user-defined type consisting of a set of named constants called enumerators.
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