Is there a a C-like way to get item number from enum in java?

Question

Perhap this is a simple basic question

Having an enum

public enum TK{
        ID,GROUP,DATA,FAIL;
        }

Can I get the order num

Answer 1

tk.ordinal()

is the way to do it where tk is an instance of TK

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/index.html?java/lang/Enum.html#ordinal()