How to get an enum value from a string value in Java?

Question

Say I have an enum which is just

public enum Blah {
    A, B, C, D
}

and I would like to find the enum value of a string, for example

Answer 1

If you don't want to write your own utility use Google's guava library:

Enums.getIfPresent(Blah.class, "A")

Unlike the built in java function it let's you check if A is present in Blah and doesn't throw an exception.