String to object?

Hi,
I have a problem in converting string to object.
The way I intended to do is like this:
String a1 = "John";
String a2 = "Smilth";
String a3 = "Eric";
String a10 = "Howard";
and I wanna assgin the value of a1 ~ a10 into a temp string.
like this;
for (int i = 1; i<= 10; i++)
String tempString = "a" + i; //assign the value of original string into tempString.
// bla bla bla
I know I have to use class.forName() to get what I want, but I have no clue on how to
implement this in detail. Any help will be great appreciated.
Thanks
TC Wang

May I ask why you do it so complicatec? Why don't you use an array?
String[] a = new String[10]
a[0] = "John";
a[1] = "Smilth";
a[2] = "Eric";
a[9] = "Howard";
// arrays start with zero, but 0 to 9 are also ten entries just
// like 1 to 10.
for (int j = 0; j <= a.length; j++)
String tempString = a[j];
// Here goes your other code
// I replaced i with j, because i surrounded by round brackets
// means printing text cursive on this BBS board

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