How to compare string to enum type in Java?

Question

I have an enum list of all the states in the US as following:

public enum State
{ AL, AK, AZ, AR, ..., WY }

and in my test file, I will rea

Answer 1

try this

public void setState(String s){
 state = State.valueOf(s);
}

You might want to handle the IllegalArgumentException that may be thrown if "s" value doesn't match any "State"