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

just make your own valueOf like function in your enum class. Replace spaces with underscores. name your enum constants like this "north_america("North America")". If the method fails to find your enum it just returns the parameter.

public  static String valueOfOrDefault(String myValue) {
//replace space with underscore so it matches enum name
        String value=myValue.toUpperCase().replaceAll("\\s", "_");
        for(myEnum type : myEnum.class.getEnumConstants()) {
          if(type.name().equalsIgnoreCase(value)) {
            return type.toString();
          }
        }
        return myValue;
      }