OK C, i tried it and your right, should've remembered enums don't have anything to do with strings. But I don't understand why this wouldnt be sufficient enough:
enum States { AK, AL, AR, AZ ... } States state = state.AK Console.WriteLine("you've selected " + state); Now, if your looking to translate AK to a string that prints "Alaska", then I dont think an enum is the right thing to handle this type of operation.