Kotlin Program to Lookup enum by String value

Example: Lookup enum by string value

enum class TextStyle {
    BOLD, ITALICS, UNDERLINE, STRIKETHROUGH
}

fun main(args: Array<String>) {

    val style = "Bold"

    val textStyle = TextStyle.valueOf(style.toUpperCase())

    println(textStyle)

}

When you run the program, the output will be:

BOLD

In the above program, we've an enum TextStyle which represents the different styles a block of text can have, i.e. Bold, Italics, Underline, Strikethrough.

We also have a string named style which holds the current style we want. However, it is not in all-caps.

We then use the enum TextStyle's valueOf() method to pass the style and get the enum value we require.

Since, valueOf() takes case-senstitive string value, we had to use toUpperCase() method to convert the given string to upper case.

If, instead, we'd used:

TextStyle.valueOf(style)

the program would've thrown an exception No enum constant EnumString.TextStyle.Bold.

Here's the equivalent Java code: Java program to lookup enum by string value.