Enquires on Hangman

[AlexSc]

Hi to All,

I am doing on a hangman project, Where this is a very simple one, where player would guess the word and if it is correct the letter would be from "-" to the correct letter once all letter is correct they system will appear out good job u clear the game.

I had done up the game and it work however i find mine is rather impractical, looking for better solution for it. please enlighten me in it.

    public static void main(String[]agr)
    {
        String [] fruits ={"apple","pear","watermelon","grape","orange","banana","durian","jackfruit"};
 
        String [] pear ={"p","e","a","r"};
        String answer ="";
        int chooice =(int)(Math.random ()*7);
 
        answer = fruits[chooice];
        if (answer.equals("apple"))
        {
            apple();
        }
        else if (answer.equals("pear"))
        {
                        pear();
                }
....
    public static void apple()
    {
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        String word = "";
        String [] apple ={"-","-","-","-","-"};
        int guess =apple.length;
        int correct =0;        
        System.out.println("The word you pick is a Fruits which have "+apple.length+"letter");
        System.out.println("You will have "+ apple.length +"chance to guess the word");
 
        while ( guess>0)
        {    
        for (int b = 0;b<apple.length;b++)
        {
        System.out.print(apple[b]);
        }
        System.out.println();
        System.out.print("Please guess the word\t:");
        word = sc.nextLine();
            if (word.equals("a"))
            {
                apple[0]= "a";        
                correct +=1;
            }
 
            else if (word.equals("p"))
            {
                apple[1]="p";
                apple[2]="p";
                correct+=2;
            }
.....
            }
            else
            {
                System.out.println("You have make an incorrect guess");
            }
            guess--;
            System.out.println("You have left with "+guess+"guess");
 
            if(correct ==apple.length)
            {
                System.out.println("You have guessed the word correctly");
                System.out.println("You WIN");
                break;
            }    
            else if (guess == 0)
            {
                System.out.println("Sorry you have lost");
                System.out.println("You have used up all your "+apple.length+" guess");
            }
 
        }
    }
....
public static void pear()
{
...[same as the apple but will the "if" will change to match the letter]
}
 

After the above code[part of it] my main question would be will it be possible to have me calling only one method? rather then me having 8 method. As if i want 100 different fruits, then i would need 100 method(which to me is impractical) hence i would like to know what are the possible way to solve this problem?

if you would need to see the whole code in order to help, do tell me i will post it up

P.S. please refer me to other link if they are similar question, as there are really just too much link and i seen some other hangman problem but some are too difficult to understand. [I am currently still new to programming - java]

[JosAH]

Search for "hangman" (top right of the page); I once showed a complete implementation of the game using regular expressions; it is short without all the kludgy logic and is a complete spoonfeeding giveaway.

kind regards,

Jos