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JustSomeNewbie
JustSomeNewbie

Reputation: 115

Create variable which will be named with listValue

I'm having a little problem with creating variable which will be named by list value.

Here is an example with what I want.

for (int i = 0; i < list.Count; i++)
{
  //here I want to create variable
  //which will be named with list[i]
}

So if list has 2 elements eg.

list[0] = "testName"
list[1] = "andAnotherOne"

I want to create 2 variables, one of them is named testName and the second one andAnotherOne

Can you help me complete it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 84

Answers (4)

Stefano d&#39;Antonio
Stefano d&#39;Antonio

Reputation: 6172

You can use dynamic and ExpandoObject:

var variables = new List<string> { "variableOne", "variableTwo" };

dynamic scope = new ExpandoObject();

var dictionary = (IDictionary<string, object>)scope;

foreach (var variable in variables)
    dictionary.Add(variable, "initial variable value");

Console.WriteLine(scope.variableOne);
Console.WriteLine(scope.variableTwo);

Upvotes: 1

troopy28
troopy28

Reputation: 3

In C#, variables are all statically declared. I think you can't do that. Maybe you can try with the reflection but I think it won't able you to do what you want.

Some things I found that could interest you :

string to variable name

Convert string to variable name

Upvotes: 0

Sajeetharan
Sajeetharan

Reputation: 222692

Just create A List<string> names = new List<string>();

   for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
   {
      names.Add("sample" + i);
   }

EDIT:

If you want to refer with names then use a dictionary like below,

Dictionary<string, string> myvalues = new Dictionary<string, string>();

Upvotes: 1

FakeCaleb
FakeCaleb

Reputation: 993

I believe you need a Dictionary as said by TaW. This allows you to have the value same as the index.

Dictionary<string, string> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>();
dictionary.Add("foo","foo"); //index,value of index
if(dictionary.ContainsKey["foo"])
{ 
    string value = dictionary["foo"];
    Console.Write(value);
}

I hope I understood your question.

Upvotes: 1

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