Character Entering and checking

[Blade]

is there any way that i could enter a character, check to see if its a word, then check to see if tis been entered again...
like i have a word - Cat... have the user enter a letter and check to see if the letter is in the word, but also check to see if he's entered that same letter before..

I'm not asking you to do this for me... i would just like to have some help with it.. i've been sittin here in this damned boring class days tryin to figure out a way.. but i think i'm having a week long brain fart

[Delta]

I'm confused but this is what I got out of it

code:

var word : string := "" var ch : string(1) var count : int := 0 var last : string := "" loop     put "Enter a word"     get word     put "Enter a character"     getch(ch)     last := last + ch     for i : 1 .. last         if ch = last(i) then             put "The character has been used before"         end if     end for     for i : 1 .. length(word)         if ch = word(i) then             count := count + 1         end if     end for     put "The character is in the word ", count, " times" end loop

Don't copy just use as a template

[Blade]

that isnt really it.... but its along that idea... what i meant was..
-enter a word
-enter a letter
-if the letter is in the word, but hasn't been guess before, you get a point
-if the letter is in the word, but has been guessed, no points

sorry my question wasnt very clear.. i try to, hopefully this one clears it up

[Catalyst]

index should be able to help will tell u if its in the word

[Blade]

yeah... i can check to see if its in the word, but i cant figure out to index the already guessed letters, and check to see if its been used before... it has to be in the same if statement... doesnt it?

[Catalyst]

it would be like this...

code:

var text : string var ch : string (1) := "" var guesses : string := "" put "Enter text:" get text loop     getch (ch)     if index (guesses, ch) = 0 then         guesses += ch         if index (text, ch) not= 0 then             put "It is in the word"         else             put "It is not in the word"         end if     else         put "You have guessed that already"     end if end loop

youll have to use captalization functions to normalize it but that is pretty much it

[Blade]

awwww i feel so stupid now ... thanks a lot catalyst...

[Blade]

also... i was playin around and i remembered that it was case sensitive... any way i can take this off? or get around it?

[Tony]

i belive someone already posted a function for converting cases around.

you add some number to the ASCII value (i dont remember which one)