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missjk

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Posted: 23rd Apr 2012 19:49

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so we are going the hangman game like everyone else, and what i was wondering if anyone knew how to make it that when you use the same letter twice that it wont count it against you but tell you \" you have used that latter already\" or something along though lines. also to make it cap sensitive.

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Andrew_Neale

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Posted: 24th Apr 2012 00:51 Edited at: 24th Apr 2012 00:55

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Just keep a record of which letters have been guessed already and check against it. You could do this in different ways but here is one example.

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usedLetters as string
guess as string
target as string
target = "hangman"

do
    
    input "Guess a letter:", guess
    
    if (len(usedLetters) > 0)
        if (find first char$(usedLetters, guess) > -1)
            print "Letter '" + guess + "' already used."
        else
            usedLetters = usedLetters + guess
            if (find first char$(target, guess) > -1)
                print "Letter '" + guess + "' is in the target."
            else
                print "Letter '" + guess + "' is not in the target."
            endIf
        endIf
    else
        usedLetters = usedLetters + guess
        if (find first char$(target, guess) > -1)
            print "Letter '" + guess + "' is in the target."
        else
            print "Letter '" + guess + "' is not in the target."
        endIf
    endIf
    
loop

end

Hopefully that makes sense.