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[Mike Curran]

Hello,

I am writing a hangman game for my VB class and we did not cover
string manipulation until this week, the final week. I can take in a
word or phrase up to 30 characters and create the necessary dashes for
the number of characters, and also display the correct letters in the
correct spots...however I am struggling to get it to work right when I
perform the conversion from letters to dashes to keep spaces in the
right character locations. Should I be using 2 or more variables to
keep things straight?

thanks in advance,

Mike curran

[Evan Tomlinson]

Hi,

I do not understand your question, can you provide some examples of what you
are trying to do and explain both the current result as well as the expected
result?

Regards
"Mike Curran" <mi*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

I am writing a hangman game for my VB class and we did not cover
string manipulation until this week, the final week. I can take in a
word or phrase up to 30 characters and create the necessary dashes for
the number of characters, and also display the correct letters in the
correct spots...however I am struggling to get it to work right when I
perform the conversion from letters to dashes to keep spaces in the
right character locations. Should I be using 2 or more variables to
keep things straight?

thanks in advance,

Mike curran

[Larry Serflaten]

"Mike Curran" <mi*********@hotmail.com> wrote

Hello,

I am writing a hangman game for my VB class and we did not cover
string manipulation until this week, the final week. I can take in a
word or phrase up to 30 characters and create the necessary dashes for
the number of characters, and also display the correct letters in the
correct spots...however I am struggling to get it to work right when I
perform the conversion from letters to dashes to keep spaces in the
right character locations. Should I be using 2 or more variables to
keep things straight?

thanks in advance,

Yes. keep one string that has the answer, and another that indicates
how it should be displayed on the screen. After each guess, check
to see if that guess is correct, and adjust the screen string accordingly.
If the string for the screen ever matches the answer string, you
know they guessed the word (or phrase).

LfS


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