How do I assign the variable of a different class to another variable to get the length

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do you want me to post the whole code?

No, because what you want to do isn't possible: c1 is a variable that is defined inside the method smallCollegeNortheast. That is called a local variable and it only exists in the scope of the method body.

Scope defines how "visible" an item is: it is limited to the enclosing set of curly brackets and cannot be used outside them unless it is declared public (or similar) and defined at class level.

In the case of local variables, it's even worse: the variable is created when the method is called, and destroyed when it returns - literally destroyed, the memory space that was allocated on the stack to hold it is released and becomes available for other functiosn to use!

The only way to preserve the value once the method exits is to either store it in a class level variable or return it from the method to the caller wirth a return statement - in which case the method must be declared to return teh appropriate value type, not void

The variable c1 is local to that method (not a class) and only exists until the System.out.println statement completes. Once that method returns the variable no longer exists. So you need to reword your question to explain exactly what you are trying to do.

To access the variable of another class, you have to create an object of the called class in the caller class.

class Bigbang{
    public void galaxy()
    {
    Syatem.out.println("galaxy")
    }
}
Public class Universe{
    Bigbang bigbang=new Bigbang();
    bigbang.galaxy();
}

You can also use the getter and setter method . Without having any instances to create, you can declare multiple objects in the same class.