Can we use a string instead a List<> name ? [C#]

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1

Hey everybody !
I’m making a RPG and i need to check if all guards groups in a city are full life.
To make that, i use a List who contain 5 list of Guards (PNJ).
So, my question is : Can i do something like this :

    [Header("Guards lists")]
    public List<List<PNJ>> listGroupOfGuard;
    public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards1;
    public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards2;
    public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards3;
    public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards4;
    public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards5;
    public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards1;
    public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards2;
    public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards3;
    public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards4;
    public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards5;


  public void RespawnGuards()
    {
        string j = "baseGroupOfGuards";
        string k = "groupOfGuards";
        string l = "";
        string m = "";
        for (int i = 1; i < 6; i++)
        {
            l = j + i; // l = "baseGoupOfGuards" + i (this is the prefabs)  (guards can't be killed)
            m = k + i; // m = "groupOfGuards" + i   (this is not the prefabs) (guards can be killed)
            foreach (List<PNJ> listPNJ in listGroupOfGuard)
            {
                if((List<PNJ>)m != (List<PNJ>)l)
                {
                    (List<PNJ>)m = (List<PNJ>)l;
                }
            }
        }
    }

Or i must make something for each groups ?

Thank you !

Bye, xyHeat

2

Well, you cannot cast a string to a list. I am not sure what you want to achieve, so I will just take a guess. :slight_smile:

public List<List<PNJ>> listBaseGroupOfGuard = new List<List<PNJ>>();
public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards1 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards2 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards3 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards4 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> baseGroupOfGuards5 = new List<PNJ>();

public List<List<PNJ>> listGroupOfGuard = new List<List<PNJ>>();
public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards1 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards2 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards3 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards4 = new List<PNJ>();
public List<PNJ> groupOfGuards5 = new List<PNJ>();

void Start() {
    listGroupOfGuard.Add(groupOfGuards1);
    listGroupOfGuard.Add(groupOfGuards2);
    listGroupOfGuard.Add(groupOfGuards3);
    listGroupOfGuard.Add(groupOfGuards4);
    listGroupOfGuard.Add(groupOfGuards5);
    listBaseGroupOfGuard.Add(baseGroupOfGuards1);
    listBaseGroupOfGuard.Add(baseGroupOfGuards2);
    listBaseGroupOfGuard.Add(baseGroupOfGuards3);
    listBaseGroupOfGuard.Add(baseGroupOfGuards4);
    listBaseGroupOfGuard.Add(baseGroupOfGuards5);
}

Now unless you are reassigning the members baseGroupOfGuards? and groupOfGuards?, you can do this to get a reference to those lists in a loop (without using reflections):

public void RespawnGuards()
 {
     List<PNJ> l;
     List<PNJ> m;
     for (int i = 1; i < 6; i++)
     {
         l = listBaseGroupOfGuard[i-1]; // == baseGroupOfGuardsX, where X == i
         m = listGroupOfGuard[i-1]; // == groupOfGuardsX, where X == i
         // Do something with those groups like refill m by instantiating something from l
         // Sorry, I wasn't able to guess what your loop body was supposed to do. :)
     }
 }