Hang Man

Question

I am attempting to develop a hang man game but, I can't get the String Buffer to work in seperating my characters. When prompting input from the user(The word to be guessed) how do I put the individual characters of the inputted word into an array. Do I have to use the String Buffer at all?
Any hints to develop this hang man game please Respond!!!

Answer 1

Hi,
I'm not sure to nderstand ur problem.
Just get the word to be guessed an create a new StringBuffer with it.
Then to check characters enter to guess the word use the chatAt(int position) method in StringBuffer.
Here a sample code that ask for the word to be guessed then a character and check if it exists in the secret word before showing where the letter appears
char c;//char enter to guess the word
StringBuffer word; // word to be guess
StringBuffer found;//character found
BufferedReader reader=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println("Enter the word to be guessed");
word=new StringBuffer(reader.readLine());
for (int i=0;i<word.length();i++)
found.append('_'); // use a '______' word to begin
//add a loop to ask for a character until the word is guessed or the game ends
//check a letter
System.out.println("enter a character");
c=reader.readLine().charAt(0);
for(int i=0;i<word.length();i++){
if (c==word.charAt(i)){
found.charAt(i)=c;
System.out.println(found);
//end loop
Hope this helps