How to use a string as a name of a variable in c#

Question

Hi mates How to use a string  to be a variable name for example suppose X=WELL then I want to have an array with this name -> double [] WELL = new double[10]; more specifically I want to create a set of arraies in which the name of array is obtained by a loop: for ( int i=0;i { string X= WELL+i.ToString(); double [] X = new double [10]; //??? } Then I want to have a set of array : double [] WELL1 =new double [10]; double [] WELL2 =new double [10]; ... double [] WELL19 = new double[10]; Thanks

John Penn · Answer

It isn't possible to do this in C# but you can assign a name to each array of doubles if you store the string/array pairs in a generic dictionary as in this example: // use a generic dictionary to hold the WELL names and arrays of doubles Dictionary doubleHolder = new Dictionary (); // create the dictionary elements based on your loop for ( int i = 0; i { string x = WELL + i.ToString(); double[] arr = new double[ 10 ]; doubleHolder.Add( x arr ); } // you can then reference each array of doubles by the WELL name double[] w2 = doubleHolder[ WELL2 ];

Sam Hobbs · Answer

I don't understand what you need to do and since you have an answer and I have such limited time I won't try to understand but Reflection in C# makes most anything possible; it is nearly certain it could help you.