Enquires on Hangman

[AlexSc]

Hi to All,

I am doing on a hangman project, Where this is a very simple one, where player would guess the word and if it is correct the letter would be from "-" to the correct letter once all letter is correct they system will appear out good job u clear the game.

I had done up the game and it work however i find mine is rather impractical, looking for better solution for it. please enlighten me in it.

	public static void main(String[]agr)
	{
		String [] fruits ={"apple","pear","watermelon","grape","orange","banana","durian","jackfruit"};
		
		String [] pear ={"p","e","a","r"};
		String answer ="";
		int chooice =(int)(Math.random ()*7);
		
		answer = fruits[chooice];
		if (answer.equals("apple"))
		{
			apple();
		}
		else if (answer.equals("pear"))
		{
                        pear();
                }
....
	public static void apple()
	{
		Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
		String word = "";
		String [] apple ={"-","-","-","-","-"};
		int guess =apple.length;
		int correct =0;		
		System.out.println("The word you pick is a Fruits which have "+apple.length+"letter");
		System.out.println("You will have "+ apple.length +"chance to guess the word");

		while ( guess>0)
		{	
		for (int b = 0;b<apple.length;b++)
		{
		System.out.print(apple[b]);
		}
		System.out.println();
		System.out.print("Please guess the word\t:");
		word = sc.nextLine();
			if (word.equals("a"))
			{
				apple[0]= "a";		
				correct +=1;
			}
			
			else if (word.equals("p"))
			{
				apple[1]="p";
				apple[2]="p";
				correct+=2;
			}
.....
			}
			else
			{
				System.out.println("You have make an incorrect guess");
			}
			guess--;
			System.out.println("You have left with "+guess+"guess");
			
			if(correct ==apple.length)
			{
				System.out.println("You have guessed the word correctly");
				System.out.println("You WIN");
				break;
			}	
			else if (guess == 0)
			{
				System.out.println("Sorry you have lost");
				System.out.println("You have used up all your "+apple.length+" guess");
			}
			
		}
	}
....
public static void pear()
{
...[same as the apple but will the "if" will change to match the letter]
}

After the above code[part of it] my main question would be will it be possible to have me calling only one method? rather then me having 8 method. As if i want 100 different fruits, then i would need 100 method(which to me is impractical) hence i would like to know what are the possible way to solve this problem?

if you would need to see the whole code in order to help, do tell me i will post it up

P.S. please refer me to other link if they are similar question, as there are really just too much link and i seen some other hangman problem but some are too difficult to understand. [I am currently still new to programming - java]

[JosAH]

Search for "hangman" (top right of the page); I once showed a complete implementation of the game using regular expressions; it is short without all the kludgy logic and is a complete spoonfeeding giveaway.

kind regards,

Jos