Re: converting program variables to arrays

Shirley Cohen wrote:
Hi Java Experts,

I'm trying to take an existing application and add some custom labels
to the program variables. Specifically, I want to change every scalar
variable to an array type such that I can store the value of the
variable at index 0 of the array and store some label at index 1 of
the array. Rather than manually change every variable one line at a
time, can anyone suggest a more efficient way of doing this?

I agree with Roedy's replacement edit. Of course, to do that you need to use an editor capable of handling regular expressions (vi, microemacs or emacs would all do, or [in extremis] write a program in perl, awk or even Java).

However, you'd get better advice if you tell us why you need to do this and what you hope to achieve by doing it rather than simply saying how one possible solution might work.

I agree with another Manish: declaring a class rather than using an array would probably be a much better solution. For starters it gets round the obvious problem that a simple array won't hold an int as [0] and a string label as [1].


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