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

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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

Answer 1

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. :)

 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. :)
      }
  }

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