Enumeration versus array
arrays, c++, enums
Solution
If you want to display the name of the month, an `enum` won't do you any good at all. The identifiers in an enumeration type definition are visible only to the compiler; you can't print them at run time.
You need the array of strings (or perhaps an array of `const char*`s).
The names of the months are also available via the standard library, using the `strftime()` function declared in `<ctime>` (from the C standard library's `<time.h>` header). Getting the month name for a given month number using `strftime()` is not straightforward (you'd have to build a `struct tm` object first). It does have the advantage of using month names for the current locale rather than being hardwired to English.
And don't forget that array indices start at 0; December is at index 11, not 12.
Problem
I was wondering what would be better: An enumeration declaration or a string array: ``` enum MonthName{January, February, March, April, May, June, ...) ``` or ``` string MonthName[12] = {"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", ...) ``` because to me it doesn't seem like it matters. This variable will only be accessed by one function, to display month based on the number input.