Thread: Enumerations help

I have created an enumerated data type that represents months. In my program I have asked the user for the month. I hold the month entered by user into a string variable. From that string variable I'm trying to display the month using my enumerated data type. I know I can use if statements, but is there another simple way to do it?

import java.util.Scanner;
public class demo {
 
	//Enum class called month that has constants in it representing months
	enum month{january,february,march,april,may,june, july,august,september,
		october,november, december};
 
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		//Create a scanner object that reads from the user
		Scanner keyboard=new Scanner(System.in);
 
		//Ask user for month
		System.out.print("Type Month: ");
 
		//String variable to hold what month user types
		String user_month;
 
		//user types in their month
		user_month=keyboard.nextLine();
 
		//how can i display the month on he console?
 
		System.out.print(month.user_month);//error is on month.user_month
											//user_month cannot be resolved
 
 
	}
 
}

public class Demo {
 
    public enum Month {
 
        JANUARY(1), FEBRUARY(2), MARCH(3), APRIL(4), MAY(5), JUNE(6), JULY(7), AUGUST(8), SEPTEMBER(9), OCTOBER(10), NOVEMBER(11), DECEMBER(12);
        int numMonth;
 
        private Month(int numMonth) {
            this.numMonth = numMonth;
        }
    };
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Enum value...
        Month month;
 
        //Read in Scanner
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
 
        System.out.println("What Month?");
        //Keyboard Entry
        String userMonth;
        userMonth = keyboard.nextLine();
           //Displays what user types
        System.out.println(String.format("User entered: %s", userMonth));
        try { //use a try catch because Month.valueOf() throws IllegalArgumentException if it can't find the string.
 
            month = Month.valueOf(userMonth.toUpperCase().trim());
            System.out.println(String.format("Month: %s; Numeric Value of %s: %d", month.toString(), month.toString(), month.numMonth));
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
            System.out.println("The user input wasn't a month");
 
        }
 
    }
 
}

I commented the code. This should help you with whatever you are doing.