Thread: Define a String as multiple things

How do you define a single String variable as multiple things?

i.e.
String name = "Bob" and "Frank"

I have tried the following:
String name = "Bob", "Frank";
String name = "Bob" || "Frank"; (I knew this wouldn't work since it is a boolean but I felt like it was worth trying)
String name = "Bob"
name.equals("Frank");

Any contribution is appreciated.

what about having somthing where you take a lot of words and recognize them and somhow have a way to replace them is there a way to do that?

a way to do that

Some times there are methods to do things and some times you have to write the code yourself.
The Collections and Collection classes have methods for some of what you want to do.

Originally Posted by helloworld922

If I understand you correctly, you're looking to hold a list of strings? I would recommend using either an array or a collection.

// array solution
String name[] = new String[]{"Bob", "Frank"};

I simply want to define one String variable as multiple things.

For instance: String bigString = "WooHoo" and "HooWoo"
Specifically what I'm looking for is this: String side = "One" AND "one" so that with or without capitals can be typed.

I simply want to define one String variable as multiple things.

That sounds like an array or a collection.

with or without capitals can be typed.

IF a variable can have more than one value (maybe hundreds), which value should it return to you when you use the variable in your code?

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

If that's all you're looking to do, you might want to look at this: String (Java Platform SE 6)

Thank you! That is exactly what I needed!

That's quite different from your original request:

String name = "Bob" and "Frank"

Originally Posted by Norm

That's quite different from your original request:

My original mentality was to just define the String as both "Bob" and "bob" (example). I wasn't aware that there was an equalsIgnoreCase function. That works much better for what I'm looking for.