Re: ENUMs
Jeff Higgins wrote:
John wrote:
If I want to promote a soldier, I have a method called promote that takes
in a rank of the Enum Rank type. My thinking is that since each "rank"
has an ordinal, then I should be able to
a) determine ordinal of the current rank int x = rank.ordinal() + 1;
b) increment the ordinal x++;
c) return the Rank in the position of the incremented ordinal
Rank[] r = Rank.values()
class TestPromotion{ // this is only a test.
public static void main(String args){
System.out.println(Rank.PFC.promote());
}
public static enum Rank {
PRIVATE,
PFC,
CORPORAL,
SERGENT,
CAPTAIN,
MAJOR,
LT_COLONEL,
COLONEL,
GENERAL,
ADMIRAL;
Rank promote(){
Rank ret = null;
Rank[] r = Rank.values();
if(!this.equals(r[r.length-1])){
for(int i=0; i<r.length; i++)
if(this.equals(r[i])){
ret = r[i+1];
return ret;
}
}
return ret;
}
};
}
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