4.4 ENUMERATED DATA TYPES

§  enum is “Enumerated Data type”.

§  enum is user-defined data type.

§  Syntax:

enum identifier (Value1, Value2, Value3,……Valuen};

o   In the above syntax, “identifier” is a user-defined data type.

o   Value1,Value2,…. are the set of enum values (called Enumerated Constants)

o   Using “identifier” we are creating our variables.

§  After this definition, we can declare variables to be of this “new” type.

        enum identifier v1,v2,….vn;

o   The enumerated variables can only have one of the values Value1,Value2,…

o   Default numeric value assigned to first enum value is 0.

o   Generally printing value of enum variable is as good as printing “Integer”.

 

WAP to demonstrate the use of enumerated data type.