Java enum elements with spaces?

Question

Im working on java, I have created an enum as follows:

public enum myEnum
{
    india,
    russian,
    england,
    north America
}

Above

Answer 1

I'm gong to go ahead and guess why you want a space in the name; because you want to reference it as a string.

So do this:

public enum MyEnum {
    INDIA("India"),
    RUSSIAN("Russian"),
    ENGLAND("England"),
    NORTH_AMERICA("North America");    

    private String name;

    MyEnum(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }    
}

You can consider overriding string.

public toString() {
    return name;
}

An advantage of overriding toString() is that this string can also be used in MyEnum .valueOf(myString). So overriding toString basically creates a HashMap of the enum values.