String .contains()

[r035198x]

After initializing with the String itself, you can then use replaceAll to change every character to underscore.

[brendanmcdonagh]

There isn't a replaceAll method for StringBuffer??

[JosAH]

... or use an ordinary regular expression for that purpose:

String replaceNonChar(String s, char aChar) {
   return s.replaceAll("[^"+aChar+"]", "_");
}

kind regards,

Jos

[brendanmcdonagh]

ok im back to the reason i started this thread as my method isn't doing the job,

private void setFeedback()
    {

        int test = codeWord.indexOf(currentGuess);
        
        while(test != -1)
        {
            feedback.setCharAt(test, currentGuess);
            test = codeWord.indexOf(test, currentGuess);
            
        }
            
         
    }

It is only entering into the stringbuffer the first occurence of currentGuess, so if three was codeword, stringbuffer is only having _ _ _ e _ added to it when e is current guess.

I have tried with test and test + 1 which api says is where to start check from.

I thought ii'd sorted this one!

[r035198x]

Why not just use the replaceAll method on the toString of that StringBuffer?

[JosAH]

Why not just use the replaceAll method on the toString of that StringBuffer?

Didn't come my reply #18 through? ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

[r035198x]

Didn't come my reply #18 through? ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

I can see it here fine. The thread is becoming one of those. All the required ingredients have been posted here (more than once) so I'm out now.

[brendanmcdonagh]

sorry jos i know you are trying to help and have lost patience but #18 refers to replacing all charaters in stringbuffer with _. which i ve put on backburner for now.
My last question was more or less the same as the first in thios thread.

I know how to indexOf() for one character but the method i ve just pasted was a while loop to continue checking for multiple occurences b ut it's not doing it's job which as far as the api goes, it should.

private void setFeedback()
    {

        int test = codeWord.indexOf(currentGuess);
        
        while(test != -1)
        {
            feedback.setCharAt(test, currentGuess);
            test = codeWord.indexOf(test, currentGuess);
            
        }
            
         
    }

[JosAH]

Did you also overlook my reply #6?

kind regards,

Jos

[brendanmcdonagh]

I'm sorry for trying your patience today jos!

I got to the bottom of it in the end, it was just a case of having test and aChar the wrong way around.

Thank you so much for sticking in there!!

Brendan