assign new variable through a method

[viral ginkgo]

I have a question, I'm told to do the following.
make a method called assign initialize a new variable from it.

assign: to initialize a new variable and assign a value to it. Example: assign
x y, where x is the variable and y is the value assigned. The value could be
an integer number, or a string

I have wrote something like this but its obviously really wrong, can anyone help on how to do this?

    public void assign(String varType, String varName){

        varType varName = new varType;

    }

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    if (varType.equals("int")) {
        int varName = (int) value;
    } else if (varType.equals("String")) {
        String varName = (String) value;
    }
}```

[viral ginkgo]

Thank you so much! <3