A C program that uses enumerated types
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Create a set/list of enumerated constants called week that contains the days of the week. Have a variable called today that is of type week. Assign a value to today. If the day is Monday through Friday, print "Go to work!" If the day is Saturday or Sunday, print "You can rest today!"
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In this solution I provide a simple and easy to understand C program that uses an enumerated type to represent the days of the week. The program reads input from the user and prints a different message depending on which day of the week was entered.
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The point of using an enumeration type is that you can provide symbolic names for values that are related. The example of days of the week is a good one. We define an enum using the following statement:
enum week {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday};
This provides us with an enum that is available for us to use for other variable declarations. So we can create a variable "today" like this:
enum week today;
Now it is possible to assign the value "Monday" to this variable:
today = Monday;
Notice that we're not using " around the name Monday. That's ...
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