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If I have a variable,

String teamName;

And I am creating an object, ie. 

Thread teamName = new Thread(new cheerLoop());

Can I create a Thread name based on what is contained in the teamName variable? I am trying to run a loop that will create threads based upon the inputted name. Thanks for any help!

Hermes Trismegistus
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Sorry, I don't think this is the possible in any OOP language. You might wanna look this topic on Stack Overflow: Creating a variable name using a String value

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msmolcic
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The second argument of the Thread constructor can be a name, so

Thread t = new Thread(new cheerLoop(), teamName);

Javadoc

Note that a thread's name is a property of the thread object and not the same thing as the name of a variable. If you are interested in making a variable with a name known only at run time then you can use a more dynamic language, or, if you are using Java, store the objects in a hash map indexed by names, or use the Thread.name property.

(Aside: It's a little unusual to create threads directly these days; we tend to use pools and executor services and such things, just FYI. This S.O. question might have information for you on how to do this with thread pools.)

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Ray Toal
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  • thanks buddy. and thanks for the tips at the end. i had to write this program for a data structures class. – Hermes Trismegistus Jul 17 '14 at 17:25
  • Oh of course, being in a class explains it. There are benefits to understanding the `Thread` class. Then yeah you'd use the higher level services later. – Ray Toal Jul 17 '14 at 19:23