How to make variables out of an array - java?

Actually you want each element of args[] in an individual int variable so you can do it this way: public static void main(String[] args) { int array[] = new int[args.length]; //declare an int array of size equal to args[] for(int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) { array[i] = Integer.parseInt(args[i]); // each element of args[] will be stored in corresponding location of array } } Now all the string number elements of args[] are converted to numerals in array[]. You can now use it in the same way as you would have used individual variables. for(int i=0;i<array.length;i++) { // array[i] can be used here for whatever was your purpose }

Let's say your professor passed in args[ 5000000 ] Your for-loop would then fail to initialize one int[] array named 'array' two times. Should be: int [] array = new int[ args.length ]; at least you would have ONE array with 5 million Zeros until the code is done with the for loop. The scope of int[], named 'array' is garbage-collected after the closing brace of the for-loop.