c++ enum and using them to input from user

Question

I have an enum in my code that is the following: enum Status {In-Active, Active};. A status object is passed to a Person object as a parameter, so I wa

Answer 1

• Enum objects are being parsed at compile time and it can only contain constant integer values.

• Person p(name, age, status); //Here without using status object you should send a value directly like "In-Active" or "Active". So there would be no input from the user regarding th status field.

enum Status {InActive, Active};

• Here Status is a enum class and any object created would contain values "Inactive" or "Active". If you try to assign some other value you would get an compiler error.

Status status;

• Here status is an enum object created and it contains garbage value.

cout << "Enter status: "; cin >> status;

• Here you are asking user for an input for an enum object which is totally invalid for the compiler.