Java - Enum toString() method

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Description

The Java Enum toString() method returns the name of this enum constant, as contained in the declaration.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.Enum.toString() method

 public String toString() 

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns the name of this enum constant.

Exception

NA

Getting String representation of an enum Example

The following example shows the usage of toString() method for an enum.

 package com.tutorialspoint; // enum showing programming languages enum Language { C, Java, PHP; } public class EnumDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { // returns the name and hashCode of this enum constant System.out.print("Programming in " + Language.C.toString()); System.out.println(", Hashcode = " + Language.C.hashCode()); System.out.print("Programming in " + Language.Java.toString()); System.out.println(", Hashcode = " + Language.Java.hashCode()); System.out.print("Programming in " + Language.PHP.toString()); System.out.println(", Hashcode = " + Language.PHP.hashCode()); } } 

Output

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

 Programming in C, Hashcode = 112810359 Programming in Java, Hashcode = 205029188 Programming in PHP, Hashcode = 1309552426 

Getting String representation of an enum Example

The following example shows the another usage of toString() method for a different enum.

 package com.tutorialspoint; // enum showing topics covered under Tutorials enum Tutorials { Java, HTML, Python; } public class EnumDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { Tutorials t1, t2, t3; t1 = Tutorials.Java; t2 = Tutorials.HTML; t3 = Tutorials.Python; System.out.print("Programming in " + t1.toString()); System.out.println(", Hashcode = " + t1.hashCode()); System.out.print("Programming in " + t2.toString()); System.out.println(", Hashcode = " + t2.hashCode()); System.out.print("Programming in " + t3.toString()); System.out.println(", Hashcode = " + t3.hashCode()); } } 

Output

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

 Programming in Java, Hashcode = 112810359 Programming in HTML, Hashcode = 205029188 Programming in Python, Hashcode = 1309552426