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

Use .name() method. Like st.name(). e.g. State.AL.name() returns string "AL".

So,

if(st.name().equalsIgnoreCase(s)) {

should work.