Get index of enum from string?

Question

I have a string value, I also have an array of strings and an enum containing the range also. To get the index of the string in the array, from the value supplied I write this:

Arrays.asList(myClass.BAUD_RATES).indexOf(username) 

How do I do this for an enum? Can I use ordinal? Or do i have to make my own method?

The method might go like:

public enum Fruit {    ...    static public boolean isMember(String aName) {        Fruit[] aFruits = Fruit.values();        for (Fruit aFruit : aFruits)            if (aFruit.fruitname.equals(aName))                return aFruit;        return false;    }    ... } 

Answer 1

Not sure if I understand you correctly but based on question title you may be looking for

YourEnum.valueOf("VALUE").ordinal(); 

1. YourEnum.valueOf("VALUE") returns enum value with name "VALUE"
2. each enum value knows its position (indexed from zero) which we can get by calling ordinal() method on it.

Answer 2

I might not understand you question, but the same code works for enums too:

int index = Arrays.asList(YourEnum.values()).indexOf(YourEnum.ENUM_ITEM); 

Or you can get:

int index = YourEnum.valueOf("ENUM_ITEM").ordinal();