Question

I’ve got a problem.. I’ve got something like…

    if(condition(TEST) == true){

     something (NAME) = new something(this);

     }

This is inside a loop where there are many TEST variables being iterated through. I don’t know how many and its possible each of them would need a “(NAME)” variable so basically I want to know how would I make java “on the fly” generate a name for these variables?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Are you sure you don’t want to store the results in either an array or a collection?
The closest thing would be to use a Map. Randomly generate a String or an Integer key, and use it as a key to your Something value.

// Before all
Map<String, Something> myMap = new HashMap<String, Something>();

// For each of these
if(condition(TEST) == true){
   String name = "VAR" + Math.random() // Don't remember the syntax here
   myMap.put(name, new something(this));
}