Replacing a word with an asterix

[uknowhoiam]

Here's my question that i have to answer ..

Write a program that asks the user to input a word and a letter to search for in that word. Search for the letter in the word. If it is found, replace it with an asterix ?*? and print the resulting string. If not found, notify the user. Your output should look like this:

Enter a word: Daddy
Enter a letter to search for: g
Daddy does not have the letter g in it.
~or~
Enter a word: Hello
Enter a letter to search for: l
He**o

I dont know how to replace a word with an asterix.. i've tried ' letter := * ' but i get an error
can someone please help

[Tony]

what is this "letter" variable, and what is the value of * ?

Programming via throwing random things at the source is less forgiving than throwing random words at a text document, and hoping than an essay on your English class' book will come out.

Without replacing anything, how would you simply isolate a single letter out of a word?

[uknowhoiam]

letter is entered by the user

this is what i have done so far..

Turing:

var word : string var letter : string put "Enter a word: " .. get word put "Enter a letter: " .. loop     get letter     if index (word, letter) not= 0 then        letter :=     put "Your new word is ",         exit     else         put word, " does not contain the letter ", letter     end if end loop

i dont know what to put after 'letter :=' and after the incomplete put command

please help


Mod Edit: Remember to use syntax tags! Thanks

code:

[syntax="Turing"]Code Here[/syntax]

[Tony]

word and letter are two separate variables. If you change anything in letter (letter := ...) it will not have any affect on the word variable.

You might find a tutorial on String Manipulation to be useful.

[uknowhoiam]

i got it to work : ).... thx for your help tony

i read the string manipulation, but it didnt really help me

but w/e i got it to work

[Tony]

How'd you manage to do that?

[uknowhoiam]

this is my code

Turing:

var letter : string put "Enter a word: " .. get word put "Enter a letter: " ..  letter loop     get letter     %if index not = 0 then..     if index (word, letter) not= 0 then                 loop             word := word (1 .. index (word, letter) - 1) + "*" + word (index (word, letter) + 1 .. *)                         exit when index (word, letter) = 0         end loop         exit     else         put word, " does not contain the letter ", letter     end if end loop put word

Turing:

word:= word (1..index(word,letter) - 1) + "*" + word (index (word,letter) + 1 .. *)

is the 'equation' that made this work

Mod Edit: Remember to use syntax tags!

code:

[syntax="Turing"]Code Here[/syntax]

[dc116]

Remember that you have to declare all the variables first.