# How do you choose what class you add to a list with a variable?

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**Created:** [August 2, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-do-you-choose-what-class-you-add-to-a-list-with-a-variable/22987 "2020-08-02T13:02:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-do-you-choose-what-class-you-add-to-a-list-with-a-variable/22987/4 "2020-08-02T16:21:32Z")

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@GoToLoop This is a valid answer, (I had thought of this myself) but I want to avoid having a big switch statement. My question was kind of vague, but to clarify I have a lot of classes, and don’t want to do this, but I will if I have to.

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