Hangman

[Gackt]

Hey, Im kind of stuck on my hangman game. Im looking for help on the basic coding. I created a .txt file to load all the words from. I just have no clue how to select a random word from it and guess each indivual letter. Could anyone possibly throw a basic coding line at me that I can work with?

[metachief]

Code line: put "Hello!"
Work with it!

[DemonWasp]

Do you know arrays yet?
Do you know file I/O yet (input specifically, though output is also useful)?
Do you know how to display stuff on the screen and ask for user input?

That's all you need.

[Tony]

The simplest way is to read everything into an array, and pick a random element of that array.

[Gackt]

I don;'t have time to learn arrays.

[hossack]

metachief @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:23 pm wrote:

Code line: put "Hello!"
Work with it!

Come on, post something that will help!

[Tallguy]

like tony said, the easiest way to do this is to have arrays, if the user picks a letter that is in the array, then have a counter or something, and store used letters in an array by themselves with another counter for numbert if guesses

this is just how i would do it . . .

[DemonWasp]

You do have time to learn arrays. They really aren't that hard, and they are absolutely necessary for anything more than a trivial program.

[Gackt]

If I use arrays then Im going to lose marks for not using the coding she taught us.



Edit: Okay, really all I need to know is how to randomize a string?

[Tallguy]

what is she teaching you?? arrays are basic programming

[Gackt]

Were doing crap like this. Im so lost.

Turing:

var stream : int var word, search : string var file : string put "Enter the Name of a file, include the ending like .txt and crap." get file put "Enter a word to seach" get search open : stream, file, get assert stream > 0 put "Words in file:" put "" loop     exit when eof (stream)     get : stream, word     if index (word, search) > 0 then         put word         put "SHE'S THAR"         delay (1000)         exit     else         put "Its not thar"         delay (1000)         exit     end if end loop close : stream

Thats to search for a word. Im using that to start off. And we have to do crap like

Turing:

get : stream, skip     exit when eof (stream)     get : stream, word     if length (word) > 2 and word (* -1 .. *) = "or" then         word := word (1 .. * -2) + "our"

or what ever.

Mod Edit: Your forgot the add syntax tags for one block of code

[Gackt]

Actually, What I should start out with is just Guess a word and working from there. I'll post up my .Zip file.

What I mainly need help on is.. I can only guess the first word of my .txt file. Any other word that I have in there and try to guess, it says its not there.

[Tony]

you should trace through the flow of your program. Read it out-loud -- it's doing things in order that I'm sure wasn't your intention.

Also, you might want to review what index actually does.

[Gackt]

Its just the coding that my teacher gave me. She we had to use index for like searching for words.

[Tony]

Well one of you is not understanding something. index is used to search inside a word, not for the whole word.