Getting all names in an enum as a String[]

Question

What\'s the easiest and/or shortest way possible to get the names of enum elements as an array of Strings?

What I mean by this is that if, for example,

Answer 1

Just a thought: maybe you don't need to create a method to return the values of the enum as an array of strings.

Why do you need the array of strings? Maybe you only need to convert the values when you use them, if you ever need to do that.

Examples:

for (State value:values()) {
    System.out.println(value); // Just print it.
}

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for (State value:values()) {
    String x = value.toString(); // Just iterate and do something with x.
}

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// If you just need to print the values:
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(State.values()));