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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Storing Guesses

Posted by Pinky Sharma
Pinky Sharma
Courses Plus Student 75 Points

hits and misses

By the command hits += letter and same for misses, it is going to concatenate the characters in a random manner. So how is that useful? I mean how will that unjumble into the correct guess?

1 Answer

Yuvraj Dhadwal
Yuvraj Dhadwal
5,513 Points
Yuvraj Dhadwal
Yuvraj Dhadwal
5,513 Points

You can access this large concatenated string by using the indexOf method.

For example:

if (misses.indexOf(letter)) >= 0{
     System.out.println("True");
} else {
     System.out.println("False");
}

If this statement prints "True", we know that the letter given has already been guessed, but is not in the "hits" string.

And for the "hits" string we don't need to know what the word is we just need to guess all the letters inside the word, that is how Hangman works. In short, the computer will only search for the letters inside the word given not the actual word itself. Hope this answer helps!