Can enum take string values?

You can achieve it but it will require a bit of work.

There is no built-in method of declaring an enumeration with string values . If we want to declare an enumeration with string constants, we can use the enum class and an extension function to achieve this goal.

Java provides a valueOf(String) method for all enum types . Thus, we can always get an enum value based on the declared name: assertSame(Element.LI, Element.2 Eyl 2021