So I am trying to make a hang man game using a website that returns random word. I'm using that random word for the hangman game.
What I am stuck on is validating a guess the user makes. Here is the code, I am just putting everything in main first then making separate methods to do the work for me after this works.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
randomWord = TestingStuff.sendGet();
int totalTries = 1;
char[] guesses = new char[26];
int length = randomWord.length();
Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *"
+ "\n* Welcome to Hangman! *"
+ "\n* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *");
System.out.println("\nYou get 10 tries to guess the word by entering in letters!\n");
System.out.println(randomWord);
/*
Cycles through the array based on tries to find letter
*/
while (totalTries <= 10) {
System.out.print("Try #" + totalTries);
System.out.print("\nWhat is your guess? ");
String guess = console.next();
char finalGuess = guess.charAt(0);
guesses[totalTries - 1] = finalGuess; //Puts finalGuess into the array
for (int i = 0; i < totalTries; i++) { //checks to see if the letter is already guessed
if (finalGuess != guesses[i]) {
for (int j = 0; i < length; j++) { //scans each letter of random word
if (finalGuess.equals(randomWord.charAt(j))) {
}
}
} else {
System.out.println("Letter already guessed, try again! ");
}
}
}
}
What I am stuck on is inside of the while loop where it says:
for (int i = 0; i < totalTries; i++) { //checks to see if the letter is already guessed
if (finalGuess != guesses[i]) {
for (int j = 0; i < length; j++) { //scans each letter of random word
if (finalGuess.equals(randomWord.charAt(j))) {
}
}
} else {
System.out.println("Letter already guessed, try again! ");
}
}
It is giving me an error saying "char cannot be dereferenced". Am I missing something here?
finalGuess is a primitive char - you can't use methods, such as equals on it. You could just compare the two chars using the == operator:
if (finalGuess == randomWord.charAt(j)) {