Help with creating a variable from a character in string

[Mayur]

So basically I am having alot of trouble here. I have a user inputted string. Whatever the second character of the string is, that will become the variable name for a type long. Any idea how to do this? I'm doing this which is infinitesimally wrong where str is the variable of the String and value is just a value of type long.

long str.charAt(1) = value;

[matzahboy]

I do not think there is a way to convert a string into a variable name in java. You might consider making a class that stores the name and value.

[Mayur]

For example my program has to do this...spaces can be entered but I have it remove spaces within the program
Input= "=a2+3"

What this has to do is set a variable a = 2+3. I have the rest of the program working fine, I just need it to extract a character and use that as the name of the variable.

[matzahboy]

What this has to do is set a variable a = 2+3. I have the rest of the program working fine, I just need it to extract a character and use that as the name of the variable.

What is the variable being used for (why does it need to have that variable name)?

[Mayur]

The program is a simple calculator. It has to work for just expressions put in such as "2+3" and it has to also take an input as "=a2+3" where 'a' can be any letter lower or upper case and the expression gets inputted into the inputted letter.

[matzahboy]

The program is a simple calculator. It has to work for just expressions put in such as "2+3" and it has to also take an input as "=a2+3" where 'a' can be any letter lower or upper case and the expression gets inputted into the inputted letter.

Assuming that all of the variable names are 1 letter, you could just create 26 double variables, one for each letter.

Are you having trouble taking the "2+3" input and converting that into 5, or have you already coded that?

[Mayur]

Assuming that all of the variable names are 1 letter, you could just create 26 double variables, one for each letter.

I see what you're saying here. This is the "lazy" way I guess but it works. That would be a ton of if statements though...

Are you having trouble taking the "2+3" input and converting that into 5, or have you already coded that?

This part has been coded already and works fine.

[matzahboy]

I see what you're saying here. This is the "lazy" way I guess but it works. That would be a ton of if statements though...

After some quick googling, I found out that there is a way to do this using hashmaps (though I've never personally used them before, so I don't know how well this works).

See if this helps you: dynamic variables