Thread: enum question

I am parsing a XML file. I have enum:ed some things like this:

Code:

enum NeighbourhoodDogs {Felix, Fido, Boo}

In the XML file I later get records like this:

Code:

<Dog Name="Boo" Weight="54.30" />

Is there a way to use the enum here to put Boos weight in an array somehow, kind of like this:

Code:

dogweights[Boo] = w;

// w is an extracted value from the XML file

How do I do the mapping from string to enum or do I need to use a hashmap here?

Thanks.... again.