Java in operator

You can write a helper method to do it.

public static <T> boolean isIn(T t, T... ts) {
    for(T t2: ts) 
      if (t.equals(t2)) return true;
    return false;
}

// later
if (isIn(value, a,b,c)) {

} else if (isIn(value, d,e)) {

}