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is it possible in C# to get an object by name?
i.e. get this.obj0 using
string objectName = "obj0";
executeSomeFunctionOnObject(this.someLoadObjectByName(objectName));
No, it’s not.
Objects don’t have names – variables do. An object may be referenced by any number of variables: zero, one or many.
What you can do, however, is get fields (static or instance variables) by name (using
Type.GetField) and get the values of those fields (for a specific instance, if you’re using instance variables).Depending on what you’re trying to do, you might also want to consider a dictionary from names to objects.