Dart How to get the “value” of an enum

Question

Before enums were available in Dart I wrote some cumbersome and hard to maintain code to simulate enums and now want to simplify it. I need to get the value of the enum as

Answer 1

Sadly, you are correct that the toString method returns "day.MONDAY", and not the more useful "MONDAY". You can get the rest of the string as:

day theDay = day.MONDAY;      
print(theDay.toString().substring(theDay.toString().indexOf('.') + 1));

Hardly convenient, admittedly.

If you want to iterate all the values, you can do it using day.values:

for (day theDay in day.values) {
  print(theDay);
}