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Lisa
Lisa

Reputation: 293

How do I make a new class whose name is gathered from user input?

I want to create a new instance of a class but I want the name of the instance to be the name inputted by the user whilst the program is running. I don't want Employee employee = new Employee();. I want it to be named according to what the user inputs.

Console.WriteLine("Enter Employee name");
       string inputName = Console.ReadLine();
       Employee [ inputName ] = new Employee();

e.g. If 'inputName' was 'Kaylee' then how do I create an instance whilst the program is running of Employee Kaylee = new Employee();

Upvotes: 0

Views: 330

Answers (1)

cmos
cmos

Reputation: 512

As others were pointing out in the comments, dynamically defining a variable name is not possible!

If you want your Employee class to be associated to a name that was input by a user, you have two options in my opinion:

  1. Give your Employee class a "Name" property

    public class Employee
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

    That way you can do something like this:

    Console.WriteLine("Enter Employee name");
string inputName = Console.ReadLine();
EmployeeList.Add(new Employee{ Name = inputName });

  2. Use a dictionary

    Dictionary<string, Employee> employees = new Dictionary<string, Employee>();
Console.WriteLine("Enter Employee name");
string inputName = Console.ReadLine();
// Check if employee already exists, since dictionary keys have to be unique
if(!employees.ContainsKey(inputName))
{
    employees.Add(inputName, new Employee());
}

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 1

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