Java looping (need help)

Vertex v0 = new Vertex("Harrisburg");
Vertex v1 = new Vertex("Baltimore");
Vertex v2 = new Vertex("Washington");
Vertex v3 = new Vertex("Philadelphia");
Vertex v4 = new Vertex("Binghamton");
Vertex v5 = new Vertex("Allentown");
Vertex v6 = new Vertex("New York");

Is it possible to change Vertex into a for loop ??
Whereby the city name is created from v0 to v6
(part of dijkstra code)

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Originally Posted by FaintSmile

Vertex v0 = new Vertex("Harrisburg");
Vertex v1 = new Vertex("Baltimore");
Vertex v2 = new Vertex("Washington");
Vertex v3 = new Vertex("Philadelphia");
Vertex v4 = new Vertex("Binghamton");
Vertex v5 = new Vertex("Allentown");
Vertex v6 = new Vertex("New York");

Is it possible to change Vertex into a for loop ??
Whereby the city name is created from v0 to v6
(part of dijkstra code)

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Your question is not clear, i.e. do you want to set, say, v6 to an entirely different Vertex or do you want to change a member (state) of a Vertex? If the latter it depends on your implementation of the Vertex class.

kind regards,

Jos

Sorry that my question is not clear.
I want to set, say, v6 to an entirely different Vertex.


This is my class Vertex.

public class Vertex implements Comparable<Vertex>
{
public String name;
public Edge[] adjacencies;
public double minDistance = Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
public Vertex previous;

public Vertex(String argName){ name = argName; }

public String toString() { return name; }

public int compareTo(Vertex other)
{return Double.compare(minDistance, other.minDistance);}
}


I was looking a way to initialize Vertex using a for loop

Vertex v0 = new Vertex("Harrisburg");
Vertex v1 = new Vertex("Baltimore");
Vertex v2 = new Vertex("Washington");
Vertex v3 = new Vertex("Philadelphia");
Vertex v4 = new Vertex("Binghamton");
Vertex v5 = new Vertex("Allentown");
Vertex v6 = new Vertex("New York");

Is it possible?

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Originally Posted by FaintSmile

Is it possible?

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put your objects Vertex in a collection, example ArrayList, and then you can iterate through the collection. if you want to use a for-loop, you could also create an array of Vertex.

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Whereby the city name is created from v0 to v6

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You can not "create" variable names at run time. The must be typed in when the code is editted.
You can put the items into an array with unique indexes at runtime.

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Originally Posted by FaintSmile

I was looking a way to initialize Vertex using a for loop

Vertex v0 = new Vertex("Harrisburg");
Vertex v1 = new Vertex("Baltimore");
Vertex v2 = new Vertex("Washington");
Vertex v3 = new Vertex("Philadelphia");
Vertex v4 = new Vertex("Binghamton");
Vertex v5 = new Vertex("Allentown");
Vertex v6 = new Vertex("New York");

Is it possible?

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Yes it is possible; this is one way (without using a loop):

Code:

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Vertex[] vertexes= { new Vertex("Harrigburg"), new Vertex("Baltimore"),
                    new Vertex("Washinton") , new Vertex("Philadelphia),
                    new Vertex("Binghamton"), new Vertex("Allentown"),
                    new Vertex("New York")
                  };

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kind regards,

Jos

Thanks for the Advices.