Re: I need advice please on this Ada95 hangman game

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

Mark Pagdin wrote:
> I hope you had a nice Christmas! I am looking for your help and advice. I am
> a student at university in England

... Brighton possibly? :-)

> and have just started learning to use Ada
> 95. This is my first programming language and obviously I am finding it hard
> to learn it. However I have been set a project to create a program to play
> hangman (a word game).
> 
> I have been working hard to create this and am slowly getting there. However
> I am stuck on the main procedure which searches for the letter in the hidden
> word and then display any correct letters.
> 
> Here is the output I get when i run the program (the word is revealed at the
> moment for testing purposes):
> 
> Enter a word to test the Hangman game
> mark2
> Enter a Leter
> m
> m_ _ _ _ Enter a Leter
> a
> _ a_ _ _ Enter a Leter
> r
> _ _ r_ _ Enter a Leter
> k
> _ _ _ k_ Enter a Leter
> 2
> _ _ _ _ 2Enter a Leter
> 
> Please would it be possible for anyone to point out a way of storing each
> attempt so that when the player attempts to guess again the program is able
> to store the result from the previous guess.

You'll need to post your code (or drop in to my office next week) to
be able to figure this out; you're obviously close to a working
solution,
if that's any consolation...

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