Console Hangman game HELP!!!

Question

I have to construct a hangman game, and am having some trouble with showing the letters of the word that is guess. Also, I cannot figure out where to put
public static final Comparator<secretWord> CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER;
in my code to make it case insensitive. And my other big problem is that I cannot get the game to exit once the player guesses then enitre word correctly. Any suggestions will help.
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class hangman
     public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException
          //     public static final Comparator<secretWord> CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER;
          int maxTries = 7;
          int wordLength;
          boolean solved;
          StringBuffer guessedLetters = new StringBuffer();
          //the fileScan gets the first word for the game
          Scanner fileScan = new Scanner(new FileInputStream("words.txt"));
          String secretWord = fileScan.next();
          //Creates a StringBuffer for the viewing of the letters guessed
          StringBuffer word = new StringBuffer();
          for(int i = 0; i <= secretWord.length(); i++)
          word.append("_");
          System.out.println("Welcome to the game of HANGMAN!!!!");
          System.out.println("You will have 7 chances to guess what the word is.");
          //     System.out.println("Your word is " + wordLength + " letters long.");
               String letter;
               while(maxTries > 0 && (word.equals(secretWord)) == false)
               System.out.println(word.equals(secretWord));
               System.out.println("The letters that you have guessed are: " + guessedLetters);
               System.out.println("The word so far is: " + word);
               System.out.print("Please enter a letter to guess: ");
               Scanner inScan = new Scanner(System.in);
               letter = inScan.next();
               guessedLetters.append(letter + " ");     
               if(secretWord.indexOf(letter) != (-1))
                         int addedLetter = secretWord.indexOf(letter);
                         word.replace(addedLetter, addedLetter, letter);
                          word.setLength(secretWord.length());
               else
                    maxTries--;
               System.out.println("You have " + maxTries + " wrong guesses left.");
}THANKS

Answer 1

I have to construct a hangman game, and am having some trouble with showing the letters of the word that is guess. Also, I cannot figure out where to put
public static final Comparator<secretWord> CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER;
in my code to make it case insensitive. And my other big problem is that I cannot get the game to exit once the player guesses then enitre word correctly. Any suggestions will help.
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class hangman
     public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException
          //     public static final Comparator<secretWord> CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER;
          int maxTries = 7;
          int wordLength;
          boolean solved;
          StringBuffer guessedLetters = new StringBuffer();
          //the fileScan gets the first word for the game
          Scanner fileScan = new Scanner(new FileInputStream("words.txt"));
          String secretWord = fileScan.next();
          //Creates a StringBuffer for the viewing of the letters guessed
          StringBuffer word = new StringBuffer();
          for(int i = 0; i <= secretWord.length(); i++)
          word.append("_");
          System.out.println("Welcome to the game of HANGMAN!!!!");
          System.out.println("You will have 7 chances to guess what the word is.");
          //     System.out.println("Your word is " + wordLength + " letters long.");
               String letter;
               while(maxTries > 0 && (word.equals(secretWord)) == false)
               System.out.println(word.equals(secretWord));
               System.out.println("The letters that you have guessed are: " + guessedLetters);
               System.out.println("The word so far is: " + word);
               System.out.print("Please enter a letter to guess: ");
               Scanner inScan = new Scanner(System.in);
               letter = inScan.next();
               guessedLetters.append(letter + " ");     
               if(secretWord.indexOf(letter) != (-1))
                         int addedLetter = secretWord.indexOf(letter);
                         word.replace(addedLetter, addedLetter, letter);
                          word.setLength(secretWord.length());
               else
                    maxTries--;
               System.out.println("You have " + maxTries + " wrong guesses left.");
}THANKS