getting an object from a given string

[Max Vandenburg]

I have the following class as a example to a similar problem im having ...

Class Car

public class Car {
    private String name;
    public Car(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    } 
}

Class CreateCarFromList

public class CreateCarFromList {
    private List carNames = new ArrayList();
    private List carObject = new ArrayList();
    /** Creates a new instance of CreateCarFromList */
    public CreateCarFromList() {
       carNames.add("Red");
       carNames.add("Blue");
       carNames.add("Yellow");
       
       Iterator it = carNames.iterator();
       while (it.hasNext()) {
           Car x = new Car((String) it.next());
           carObject.add(x);
       }
    }
}

in the last class i have an arraylist,carNames, with the following value
["Red", "Blue", "Yellow"]

than i do an iteration and create an instance of an object in each iteration and add it to another arraylist, carObject

my problem is what do i need to do, to add to the Car class or perhaps to CreateCarFromList Class.

so that i can say for a

String s = "Red";

give me from carObject list the Car object that has that attribute. (hope this make sense)

[Joanne Neal]

carObject needs to be a HashMap instead of an ArrayList and you use the colour as the key.