Is there away to generate Variables' names dynamically in Java?

Question

Let\'s say that I need to generate variables to hold some input from the user (I don\'t know how many they are). Without using Array, ArrayList (an

Answer 1

Without using Array, ArrayList (and other kind of lists and maps)

Create files with these names. Hope that will work for your professor.

Or use the Java Scripting API mentioned before:

ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager();
ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("JavaScript");

engine.put("x", "hello"); // you can add any variable here
// print global variable "x"
engine.eval("println(x);");
// the above line prints "hello"

EDIT

Seems like internally this will use Maps :) Same with Properties file, Preferences API, or DOM Trees (they are using Vectors). So if your professor is so picky, use files.