Naming objects

strandberg

Is there any way of naming a object from a variable? I know in PHP this is easely done since variables has a $ infront of them.

Using PHP Variables in C# (if this was possible):
$varName = "myBook"; Book $varName = new Book()
It will be named what the variable $varName contains.

Using C#:
string varName = "myBook"; Book varName = new Book();
This will produce an error saying you cant convert varName from string to Book since its allready defined.

So what am I looking for? A way to name Objects from Variables. The objects NAME (Book NAME = new Book();) should be named what the variable contains!
Thx for any help or information.

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strandberg20y ago
Maybe using varName.ToString() or something?

Noone know anything about this? I think its very VERY usefull to be able to name things after whats inside a variable so if anyone knows. Please do tell.
strandberg20y ago
Yeah
I wanna name the object after whats INSIDE the variable.
I want to the book object to be named "myBook", not varName.

I want it to look like this:
Book myBook = new Book();
but I want to use the variable varName instead of writing 'myBook'.
Scott Lysle20y ago
The issue is the variable name; you are creating a string variable and a book variable with the same variable name; that is not going to work. If you declared the string variable outside the current scope, there would still be a problem because when you declare the book instance with the same name; the variable name in that scope will apply to the book object and will not return the name of the variable.