C# name from string

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I can't find information about this. I need to make a lot of items, and it looks like this:

Bar01.Value = data[0];
Bar02.Value = data[1];
Bar03.Value = data[2];
Bar04.Value = data[3];
Bar05.Value = data[4];
Bar06.Value = data[5];
...
Bar99999.Value = data[99998]
etc.

Is there a way to make a string for it like

for(int i=0;i<max;i++)
string s = "Bar"+i;
//do stuff

So that it would be shorter ?

so, you can use Dictionary. But why you want to copy it form array? — BWA, Jan 25 '17 at 16:28
There is usually never a goood reason to instantiate a ridiculously large collection in memory. Better to create a Factory type that can return a specific item on request (based on some TBD parameters). As the question stands now what you are actually trying to accomplish is not very clear. — Igor, Jan 25 '17 at 16:31
If you think you want to have 99,999 variables... don't. If you tell us how they are used, we might be able to give you a better solution. — crashmstr, Jan 25 '17 at 16:32
Oh, I just made this up quickly to show the problem I had. I'm actually using an array of 32 integers, and creating 32 lines of ctrl+c/ctrl+v code seemed silly to me — Dawid, Jan 25 '17 at 16:33
you should have better solution. Don't waste variable like this. — Duong Dang, Jan 25 '17 at 16:34
What represents "Barxx"? are those controls? classes? something else? — Gusman, Jan 25 '17 at 16:37

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 25 '17 at 16:31

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You can use Dictionary in this way:

Dictionary<string, int> dict = new Dictionary<string, int>();
for(int i=0;i<max;i++)
{
    dict["Bar" + i] = data[i];
}

answered Jan 25 '17 at 16:31

BWA

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