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Hi all,

In a nutshell what I'm trying to do is make a group of objects, but I don't know what their name will be until I want them made. Is there a way of getting round this? I can't simply use

Object variablename = new Object()

because it won't replace the variablename with the data inside it, it will just call it variablename and overwrite it every time. I can post the code and explain in more depth the scenario if needed but thought asking this way might invoke some discussion into other ways of doing this. Thanks

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Does the name of the object matter to you?
If you just want to create objects with arbitrary references, use a collection. ArrayList is my usual go-to for this purpose.
If you want a String associated with the object, use a HashMap<String, Foo> - where Foo is whatever type of object you're trying to make a lot of.

Then you can get at them with map.get(s) , where s is the String associated with that object.

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