incrementing the names of HashMaps? 1

[vegman]

I have 15 hashmaps that I am filling and placing in an array. The names of the hash maps increase numerically as follows.

hBasicCov1
hBasicCov2
hBasicCov3
hBasicCov4 and so on......

I want to process this in a loop and when I to fill each hashmap, I want to fill the next available hashmap and increment the name by one. I thought maybe I could do this by concatenating a string with an integer and incrementing the integer, abd then use this string somehow as my hashmap name, but this doesn't work...

String hBC = "hbasicCov";
String basCovHM = "";
basCovHM = hBC + num1; increment num1 each time thru loop

In other words I want to increment the name of a hashmap and then use the put method on that name. Is this possible in java?

Any ideas?


Thanks.....

 

[Diancecht]

Instead of an array, you can include the hashmaps on another hashmap, so you can access them by their name (as key).

HashMap hashOfHashes = new HashMap();

for i {
   hashOfHashes.add("hbasic"+i, hashMap number i);
}

and to access them

for i {
   hashOfHashes.get("hbasic"+i).put(sthg);
}

Cheers.

Dian