Dynamically naming objects

Question

I'm looking for a way to name my objects, without having to name them in hard-code, so instead of
Item randomName = new Item();I could do something like
for(int i=0;i<10;i++){
Item i = new Item();
}Which would hopefully give me 10 new items, named 1-10. I'm sure this must be possible, but I imagine I am approaching it completely wrong. And help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

cheesysam wrote:
Okay. I'll forget trying to give them names. And read up about ArrayLists. Thanks for the help. Like I said I think I'm just approaching it wrong.A List (like ArrayList or LinkedList) is what you'd use if you don't carea about duplicates, but do care about the ordering of the things, but you only want to access them sequentially or by index.
A Set (like HashSet) is what you'd use if you don't care about order, don't want duplicates, and are going to process them sequentially (as opposed to picking one out by "name").
If you want no dupes AND care about order, use a LinkedHashSet (to preserve insertion order) or a SortedSet (like TreeSet) to keep them sorted by some attribute(s).
If you want to retrieve things randomly by "name" or some other non-numeric property, use a Map (like HashMap).