How to print the name of an object in java ?

[PrachiS Shah]

how to print the name of an object in java ?

for eg.
String start = "hello";

Now how to print the name of the object ?

[sharad koshal]

good question.even i am getting confused
.experts please come in.
please help us out.

[Rob Spoor]

You can't; the variable name isn't stored with the object. Furthermore, any object can have multiple references ("names"):

String start = "hello";
String end = start;
// start and end now both refer to the same object, so the object has two "names"

[fred rosenberger]

Further, the variable name is really only useful to someone looking at the source code. It's a way for us HUMANS to identify thing in the code.

When the program is compiled and being run, the JVM or OS can really use whatever name it wants.

[Jesper de Jong]

Objects do not have names - variables have names. But a variable is not the same as the object that it refers to. As Rob shows, you can have multiple variables that refer to the same object.