----------------------------------- carrie Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:27 pm scrambling words ----------------------------------- i have a school project in school and i need ur help on some ideas on how to scramble up words randomly (basically something like a game) i have an idea but i'm just not sure it's ryt i think u have to store it as a temp var wat do u guys think?? :oops: :oops: i just suck at this thing i wish i was better :oops: :oops: ----------------------------------- zylum Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:55 pm ----------------------------------- you mean scramble the letters in a word or scramble words in a sentence? ----------------------------------- carrie Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:12 pm ----------------------------------- oh um scramble letters in a word ----------------------------------- carrie Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:27 pm ----------------------------------- please help me!! ----------------------------------- Mr. Glib Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:10 pm ----------------------------------- please help me!! Carrie, it might be more helpful to us if we had a better understanding of the problem at hand. My interpretation of your dire straights is that you need some code to scramble a word. Does it matter how long the word is? Here's what I suggest you do... 1)have the user input the word to a string var 2)figure out the length of the string var using the length function 3)take apart the string var using substrings 4)at random put the individual characters back together to form a garbled word. var word : string get word var wordLength : int wordLength := length (word) var words : array 1 .. wordLength of string for i : 1 .. wordLength words (i) := word (i .. i) end for var x, y: int var temp:string for i : 1 .. 10 for j : 1 .. wordLength x := Rand.Int (1, wordLength) y := Rand.Int (1, wordLength) temp := words (x) words (x) := words (y) words (y) := temp end for end for ----------------------------------- HyperFlexed Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:47 am ----------------------------------- var word : string % Stores user's unput var scramNum : int % Which letter will be moved const scrambleTimes : int := 100 % Number of times string will be mixed % Get user's input get word : * put "" % Scramble string according to value of 'scrambleTimes' for i : 1 .. scrambleTimes % Select substring to be moved scramNum := Rand.Int (1, length (word)) % Reinitialize word by moving scramNum to the end if scramNum not= 1 then word := word (1 .. scramNum - 1) + word (scramNum + 1 .. *) + word (scramNum) else word := word (2 .. *) + word (1) end if end for % Output is a beautiful thing put word ----------------------------------- HyperFlexed Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:51 am ----------------------------------- please help me!! Carrie, it might be more helpful to us if we had a better understanding of the problem at hand. My interpretation of your dire straights is that you need some code to scramble a word. Does it matter how long the word is? Here's what I suggest you do... 1)have the user input the word to a string var 2)figure out the length of the string var using the length function 3)take apart the string var using substrings 4)at random put the individual characters back together to form a garbled word. var word : string get word var wordLength : int wordLength := length (word) var words : array 1 .. wordLength of string for i : 1 .. wordLength words (i) := word (i .. i) end for var x, y: int var temp:string for i : 1 .. 10 for j : 1 .. wordLength x := Rand.Int (1, wordLength) y := Rand.Int (1, wordLength) temp := words (x) words (x) := words (y) words (y) := temp end for end for Why would you use the variable wordlength? why not go... var words : array 1 .. length (word) of string and better yet, put all your variables at the top. Just make your array flexible. ----------------------------------- carrie Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:07 pm ----------------------------------- oh sorry for not explaining clearly... :oops: :oops: :oops: well i have this school project and it's a game where i have to program a group of words scrambled and then the player needs to arrange the words wat i need help with is how to scramble them randomly and yup that's basically it...oh and also the get statement...how can u use font.draw for the input on the get statement...*i hope that makes sense* ----------------------------------- carrie Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:34 pm ----------------------------------- pleas someone help me??? ----------------------------------- zylum Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:34 pm ----------------------------------- oh um scramble letters in a word i thought you said you needed the letters in the word to be scrambled... now you say you want to scrable a group of words? wtf? anyways, you basically do the same thing mr. glib did... put all the words in the array, loop through each element and give it a new random position... var words : array 1..numberOfWords of string var temp : string var idx : int %put words in an array here for i : 1..upper(words) idx := Rand.Int(1, upper(words)) temp := words(idx) words(idx) := words(i) words(i) := temp end for ----------------------------------- HyperFlexed Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:07 am ----------------------------------- oh sorry for not explaining clearly... :oops: :oops: :oops: well i have this school project and it's a game where i have to program a group of words scrambled and then the player needs to arrange the words wat i need help with is how to scramble them randomly and yup that's basically it...oh and also the get statement...how can u use font.draw for the input on the get statement...*i hope that makes sense* If you can't write this program by yourself, then I think that Font.Draw is the last thing you should be thinking about. Basics first. Fancy later. ----------------------------------- Mr. Glib Sat Nov 20, 2004 4:37 pm ----------------------------------- Why would you use the variable wordlength? why not go... var words : array 1 .. length (word) of string and better yet, put all your variables at the top. Just make your array flexible. Because I like more variables! :D :wink: