How to declare a different variable for every value in a collection in C#?

Question

I want to loop through a list and declare integer variables for every value in List.

Example :

List<string> VariableNames= new List<string>()
{
    "length",
    "breadth",
    "height"
};

OutPut :

int length;
int breadth;
int height;

Is this possible ?

Answer 1

Eric J. has given a good answer but if you still want the list, you can do this:

List<string> variableNames = new List<string>()
{
    "length",
    "breadth",
    "height"
};
Dictionary<string,int> names = variableNames.ToDictionary(name => name, integer => 0);

But here you aren't generating variables, every variableName (key) is given an integer value which is initialized with a value of 0 and you can access that value with something like :

names["height"] //returns the integer variable associated with that string.

Answer 2

You cannot do this without code generation. However, you may be able to solve your problem by using a dictionary instead.

Dictionary<string, int> names = new Dictionary<string, int>()
{
    { "length", 0 },
    { "breadth", 0 },
    { "height", 0 },
};

You can then do something like

names["length"] = 42;