Creating Objects

Hi all,

I'm still very new with C# and I have just started to get my head round objects.

What I would like to know is how would I program a way of making any number of objects and give each object a name like "Person_1" and "Person_2".

Is this even possible? I have tried the following but it doesn't work:

for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)

{

Player ("Player_" + i) = new Player();

}

Is there a better way to go about doing this? The big picture (if its any use) is my program reading from a text file using streamreader and creating an object every 6 lines (my object has 6 parameters). There will be a maximum of around 100 objects so I really would like a much more efficient way of creating these objects.

Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

James Webb

P.S. Please remember I'm a beginner, try to keep it as simple as possible and explain as much as you can, it would be very much appreciated!

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Vulpes12y ago
It sounds like you just need an indexed collection - either an Array if you know in advance how many elements there are going to be or a List if you're not sure.

For example:

// array
int count = 100;
Player[] players = new Player[count]; // 100 elements from 0 to 99
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
players[i] = new Player();
// suppose the Player class has a Name property
players[i].Name = "Player_" + (i + 1);
}

// or list
List players = new List();
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
Player player = new Player();
player.Name = "Player_" + i;
players.Add(player);
}

If you want to access, say, the 50th Player object, you can then do in either case:

Player Player_50 = players[49];