Creating a loop instead of typing each thing out

[Tyler Tallman]

public void tic() {
        stringA.tic();
        stringC.tic();
    }

I am trying to loop through and tic each character in the list below:

q2we4r5ty7u8i9op-[=zxdcfvgbnjmk,.;/'

instead of having to type out stringQ.tic(), string2.tic(), etc. throughout the whole list. All I have is

for (int i = 0; i < characters.length; i++) {

Any idea where to go from here?

edit: and I named the list of characters above "characters", just to clarify.

edit2: and I should also mention that I have characters in an array, sorry sorry

[Tyler Tallman]

I guess what I'm really having trouble with is figuring out where to start off with. I don't know how to loop through in the way that I described, so that everytime I move up one in the array it does another string pluck.

[Aj Prieto]

for (int i = 0; i < characters.length; i++){
   characters[i].tic();
}

[Tyler Tallman]

Aj Prieto wrote:

for (int i = 0; i < characters.length; i++){
   characters[i].tic();
}

All this would do is give me something like q.tic() or a.tic(), I need to be stringA.tic() or stringQ.tic().

[Jeff Verdegan]

You cannot construct local variable names on the fly in Java.

You can construct member variable names on the fly using reflection, but there's a 99.99% chance that this would be the wrong approach to whatever problem you're trying to solve.

Based on what you've said so far, you want an array or ArrayList (both of which can be efficiently indexed numerically) or a Map (which provides fast lookup by name).