Accessing the value of a variable by its name as string in Java

Question

I have a string containing the variable name. I want to get the value of that variable.

int temp = 10;
String temp_name = \"temp\";

Is it p

Answer 1

Make the variable a member variable and use reflection.

You cannot get the value by name of a variable unless it's a member variable of a class. Then you can use the java.lang.reflect package to retrieve the value.