Enumerated Types

Enumerated Types

Enumerated types contain a list of constants that can be addressed in integer values.

We can declare types and variables as follows.

enum days {mon, tues, ..., sun} week;

enum days week1, week2;

NOTE: As with arrays first enumerated name has index value 0. So mon has value 0, tues 1, and so on.

week1 and week2 are variables.

We can define other values:

  enum escapes { bell = `\a',       backspace = `\b',  tab = `\t',

               newline = `\n', vtab = `\v',       return = `\r'};

We can also override the 0 start value:

enum months {jan = 1, feb, mar, ......, dec};

Here it is implied that feb =