Need help with strings!

[limpex]

Hey there guys. I need a help with this hangman program. This is what I need to do, you type in a secret word and print an "*" for the letters in word. Then you ask the user for a letter. If the letter is correct, it should replace in the "*"s. If the letter in incorrect, it shows 'invalid. Finally, I need to tell the guesses it took to guess the word.

How do I replace the letter in the "*"? I am very new at strings and don't know much. Can any one fix my program? Thank You.

Turing:

var word : string var option : int var letter : string var d3lay : string (1) put "--HANGMAN GAME MENU--" put "1) New Word" put "2) Quit Game" put " " put "Player 1 - Choose an option: " .. get option if option = 1 then     cls     put "Player 1 - Choose a word: " ..     get word     cls     var newword : array 1 .. length (word) of string     for i : 1 .. length (word)         put "-" ..     end for     put " "     loop         put "Player 2 - The word has ", length (word), " letter(s). Choose a letter: " ..         get letter         if index (word, letter) = 0 then             put letter, " is not in the word."         else             put "You found a letter!"         end if         put " "         put "Hit any key to continue --->" ..         getch (d3lay)         cls     end loop elsif option = 2 then     cls     put "Thanks for playing!" end if

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[TheGuardian001]

I'm assuming that what you want for the Asterisks is to make it so that the letters being typed can't be seen by other people, like in a password field.

the first thing you will need to do this is:

code:

View.Set("noecho")

this will set the output window to not print a character when a key is pressed (remember, you want to put this AFTER they enter option 1 or 2, otherwise they won't see what they have entered.
you can cancel out the noecho statement with:

code:

View.Set("echo")

now that the program no longer outputs what the user enters, all you need to do is print out the "*" every time they press a button while entering the word (although if you do use this method, you will need to get the word one character at a time, instead of as a string)

for guesses it took to take the word, simply use an integer variable. Start it at 0, and every time they guess a letter, increase it by one until they get the whole word