I have been working on my hangman program for far to long and cannot figure out why it is not replacing the characters entered with the asterisks.
There are a lot of details I have not added so please do not sit here and judge that. I need someone to tell my why the character the user enters is not replacing the asterisks and If you know what I could do to fix it please tell me.
I'm struggling. I have edited my program to show you where I know the logic error is coming from however I do not know what the error is.
String hiddenWord = wordList[rand];
char[] asterisks = new char[MAXCHAR];
hideWord(hiddenWord);
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(hideWord(hiddenWord)));
numGuess( hiddenWord,asterisks);
public static char[] hideWord(String hiddenWord)
{
int wordLength = hiddenWord.length();
//int length = wordLength * 2;
char[] asterisks = new char[wordLength];
for(int i=0; i < wordLength; i++)
{
asterisks[i] = '*';
}
return asterisks;
}
public static void numGuess(String hiddenWord,char[] asterisks)
{
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
hideWord(hiddenWord);
int remAttempts = MAXGUESS;
int i = 0;
while(i < (hiddenWord.length()-1))
{
System.out.println("Enter a letter or 9 to quit");
char guess = keyboard.next().charAt(i);
if(asterisks[i] == (hiddenWord.charAt(i)))
{
//attemtps == hiddenWord.charAt(i);
System.out.println("Nice job!");
remAttempts--;
}
i++;
}
}
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