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helpmeagain

Fri May 30, 2008 10:39 pm


Arrays and files - need help please

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Hi, im fairly new to turing and for a program im wondering how I would get turing to open a file with a bunch of words.
Bascially i need it to open a file with words, then randomly pick a word and split up the letters in that word. Its for hangman. could anyone help im pretty new, I know that it has somthing to do with arrays, thnx :D


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Tony

Fri May 30, 2008 10:57 pm


RE:[size=24]Arrays and files<<<need help please[/size]

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helpmeagain

Sat May 31, 2008 8:21 am


Re: Arrays and files - need help please

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I dont know why your so rude, im just having trouble splitting the word into letters. I can get the program to get different words but then i need to be able to split  up the word into its letters.

var file_contents : flexible array 1 .. 0 of string 
var stream : int 
open : stream, "words.txt", get 
loop 
    exit when eof (stream) 
    new file_contents, upper (file_contents) + 1 
    get : stream, file_contents (upper (file_contents)) 
end loop 
loop
put file_contents (stream)
stream := stream +1
delay (1000)
end loop

now that gets me the different words but i need to split each word into its letters


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Insectoid

Sat May 31, 2008 8:25 am


RE:Arrays and files - need help please

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var letter: array 1..length (word)

for x 1..length (word)
     letter (x) := word (x)
end for


This will assign every element of 'letter' one of the letters of 'word'. To call up a random letter, use a random number and insert that into letter (?).

If you haven't done string manipulation yet, I suggest you look into it. 

I had a test on string manipulation yeasterday!


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helpmeagain

Sat May 31, 2008 8:42 am


Re: Arrays and files - need help please

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var file_contents : flexible array 1 .. 0 of string
var stream : int
var x :int

open : stream, "words.txt", get
loop
    exit when eof (stream)
    new file_contents, upper (file_contents) + 1
    get : stream, file_contents (upper (file_contents))
end loop

var letter: array 1..length (file_contents (stream))

for x: 1..length (file_contents (stream))
letter (x):= (file_contents(stream))
end for



is my code now using what you  told me. Now the only problem is the for, when ever i click run it says syntax error at 'for' expected 'of'... any ideas?


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Insectoid

Sat May 31, 2008 9:39 am


RE:Arrays and files - need help please

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If you know this little about arrays, why are you using them? 

it should read:


var letter: array 1..lenght (file_contents (stream)) of string