can you give a example.

I just heard my cat will die in a day or 2 and i got problems thinking now, i just have to finish it for school, else i would be sleeping.

1. ConvertStringToInt convertStringToInt = new ConvertStringToInt();
   
   for (int i = 1890; i <= 2011; i++){
     convertStringToInt.main("y"+i);
   }
   
   
   
   public class ConvertStringToInt {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
       String aString = "78";
       int aInt = Integer.parseInt(aString);
       System.out.println(aInt);
     }
   }
   
   

> is something like this possible?

no, and it puzzles me what use it could possibly be, especially given the example

could use a hashtable instead though, use the name as the key, an int as the value.

yeah i try that now

I think it is related to http://forum.processing.org/topic/add-a-count-to-a-year-number which had a simpler solution. Good illustration of asking how to solve a technical problem (the wrong one, a hard one, but somehow a dead end) instead of asking how to solve a general problem (much simpler if taken from the right angle).

phi.lho has it right :)