Java program for 2-D Array Maze

Hello all,

This is the last assignment of the year for me. A big one, and due by 11am on May 8th. It's a 2-D array problem.

Assignment 8: CS 160 Foundations in Computing

I'm not quite sure how to start this one. Once it's started and I get the basic outline, I feel like it'll be much easier since I'll just have to repeat those steps for the other locations. I'm not sure how to setup an array for one of the boxes so if someone could post up an example of some sort that'd be great so I can get started on this.

Thanks,
Peter

Hello Peetah05,

You need to start this very much like the other assignment we helped you with. You will need a Scanner class which reads the users input from the console. You can also use the Scanner class to read the rooms.txt file.

http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...ner-class.html

http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...ner-class.html

This will get you started...

Code :

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import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class Dungeon {
 
    public static String option;
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        System.out.println("Welcome to my dungeon!");
        System.out.println("We have creepy crawly monsters roaming about. ");
        System.out.println("Find the escape route and win!");
        System.out.println("Or drop to your death in the deep pit.");
        System.out.println("Good luck!");
        System.out.println("");
 
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
 
        System.out.println("Menu options: 'h' for help, 'n' for north, 's' for south, 'w' for west, 'e' for east, 'l' to look around, and 'q' for quit.");
 
        // Main loop looking for user input
        while (sc.hasNext()) {
 
            option = sc.next();
 
            // Option actions here
            if (option.equals("q")) {
                System.out.println("Good bye!");
                System.exit(1);
            } else if (option.equals("h")) {
                System.out.println("Help: to play this game, you can move north, west, south or east.");
                System.out.println("Type 'l' to take a look around at the room, or type 'q' to quit the game.");
            }
 
 
        }
 
        // Close scanner
        sc.close();
    }
}

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I suggest you read up on 2D arrays.

Java: Two-dimensional arrays as arrays of arrays

I have been quite busy with big papers and finals but here is what I have gotten done so far. I apologize for the poor coding and help, my teacher sucks at teaching...cant wait to be done with this class.

I'm not quite sure how this is supposed to look. I tried, got some errors, just wanted to see what you could do it. I think this one might end up like the last one...not knowing how to do any of the assignment. Any help would be appreciated, again I apologize for the poor performance.

Code :

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import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 
public class Dungeon {
 
    public String[] room = new String[];
 
	public static String option;
    public static String roomFile;
 
    public void roomToArray () {
    	File file = new File(roomFile);
 
    	try {
    		Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
 
    		//Add each room to array
    		while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
    			String line = scanner.nextLine();
    			roomFile[index] = line;
    			index ++;
    		}
    		scanner.close();
 
    	} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(1);
    	}
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        System.out.println("Welcome to my dungeon!");
        System.out.println("We have creepy crawly monsters roaming about. ");
        System.out.println("Find the escape route and win!");
        System.out.println("Or drop to your death in the deep pit.");
        System.out.println("Good luck!");
        System.out.println("");
 
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
 
        System.out.println("Menu options: 'h' for help, 'n' for north, 's' for south, 'w' for west, 'e' for east, 'l' to look around, and 'q' for quit.");
 
        // Main loop looking for user input
        while (sc.hasNext()) {
 
            option = sc.next();
 
            // Option actions here
            if (option.equals("q")) {
                System.out.println("Good bye!");
                System.exit(1);
            } else if (option.equals("h")) {
                System.out.println("Help: to play this game, you can move north, west, south or east.");
                System.out.println("Type 'l' to take a look around at the room, or type 'q' to quit the game.");
            }
 
 
        }
 
        // Close scanner
        sc.close();
    }
}

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My advice to you is follow the guidlines, it says you must implement some set functions so do that! Code them one by one and test each one at a time. Then worry about intergrating them all.

I just coded this project in about 1.5 hours, whilst being distracted also. It has 1 very minor problem which i'll iron out later when I get chance.

But take it bit by bit then you should be fine :)

Also incase you are wonderng its taken me about 110 lines of code

Chris

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Originally Posted by Freaky Chris

My advice to you is follow the guidlines, it says you must implement some set functions so do that! Code them one by one and test each one at a time. Then worry about intergrating them all.

I just coded this project in about 1.5 hours, whilst being distracted also. It has 1 very minor problem which i'll iron out later when I get chance.

But take it bit by bit then you should be fine :)

Also incase you are wonderng its taken me about 110 lines of code

Chris

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Oh wow, you did that quite quick. I've been trying to follow those guidelines and use the methods suggested but can't get anything to work. If you'd post that up I'd be great, I'll also send you a pm for some extra things. I'd love to see what you've come up with so I can interpret the code and see how you got everything.

Peter

Not really a big fan on doing this but I'm in a good mood so.
Btw, My small problem was solved my learning Regex xD

Code :

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import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
public class Dungeon {
	private String[][] dungeon = new String[6][4];
	public void printWelcomeMessage(){
		System.out.println("Welcome to my dungeon!");
		System.out.println("We have creepy crawly monsters roaming about.");
		System.out.println("Find the escape route and win!");
		System.out.println("Or drop to your death in the deep pit.");
		System.out.println("Good luck!");
		System.out.println();
		System.out.println("Menu options: 'h' for help, 'n' for north, 's' for south, 'w' for west, 'e' for east, 'l' to look around, and 'q' for quit.");
	}
	public void printHelp(){
		System.out.println("Help: to play this game, you can move north, west, south or east.");
		System.out.println("Type 'l' to take a look around at the room, or type 'q' to quit the game.");
	}
	public boolean readRoomFile(String file){
		Scanner fs;
		try{
			fs = new Scanner(new FileReader(file));
		}catch(Exception e){ return false; };
		for(String temp;fs.hasNextLine();){
			temp = fs.nextLine();
			dungeon[Integer.parseInt(temp.split(";")[0])][Integer.parseInt(temp.split(";")[1])] = temp.split(";")[2];
		}
		return true;
	}
	public void printRoom(int row, int col){
		System.out.println(dungeon[row][col]);
	}
	public String getRoomDescription(int row, int col){
		return dungeon[row][col];
	}
	public boolean checkIfPit(int row, int col){
		return Pattern.compile("[^a-zA-Z]pit[^a-zA-Z]").matcher(dungeon[row][col].toLowerCase()).find();
	}
	public boolean checkIsExitValid(int row, int col, char d){
		String direction = "";
		switch(d){
			case 's': direction = "south"; break;
			case 'w': direction = "west"; break;
			case 'n': direction = "north"; break;
			case 'e': direction = "east"; break;
			default: break;
		}
		if(direction != "")
			return Pattern.compile("[^a-zA-Z]"+direction+"[^a-zA-Z]").matcher(dungeon[row][col].toLowerCase()).find();
		return false;
	}
	public Dungeon(String filename){
		Scanner sin = new Scanner(System.in);
		String choice;
		Pattern goalp = Pattern.compile("[^a-zA-Z]goal[^a-zA-Z]");
		boolean goal = true;
		int roomx = 0, roomy = 0;
		do{
			if(goal){
				while(!readRoomFile(filename)){
					System.out.print("Please enter a valid file name: ");
					filename = sin.next();
				}
				goal = false;
				filename = "";
				printWelcomeMessage();
			}
			System.out.print(">");
			choice = sin.next();
			if(choice.equals("h")) printHelp();
			else if(choice.equals("l")) printRoom(roomy, roomx);
			else if(choice.equals("n")||choice.equals("s")||choice.equals("e")||choice.equals("w")){
				if(checkIsExitValid(roomy, roomx, choice.toLowerCase().charAt(0))){
					switch(choice.charAt(0)){
						case 'n': roomy -= 1; break;
						case 's': roomy += 1; break;
						case 'e': roomx += 1; break;
						case 'w': roomx -= 1; break;
						default: break;
					}
					printRoom(roomy, roomx);
				}else{
					System.out.print("There is no exit to the ");
					switch(choice.charAt(0)){
						case 'n': System.out.println("north."); break;
						case 's': System.out.println("south."); break;
						case 'e': System.out.println("east."); break;
						case 'w': System.out.println("west."); break;
					}
				}
			}
			if(goalp.matcher(getRoomDescription(roomy, roomx).toLowerCase()).find() || checkIfPit(roomy, roomx) || choice.equals("q")){
				goal = true;
				System.out.println("Good Bye!");
			}
		}while(!choice.equals("q"));
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		if(args.length > 0) new Dungeon(args[0]);
		else new Dungeon("");
	}
}

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Regards,
Chris

Good work Chris, Peter ows you!

Not much chance of passing the course otherwise =))

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Originally Posted by JavaPF

Good work Chris, Peter ows you!

Not much chance of passing the course otherwise =))

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Hehe, I didn't do it to help him I did it so I cna practise, since frankly I think my Java skills are poor. Care to comment on the code?

Chris

Thats the main reason why I set up these forums, these types of questions are perfect for practasing Java and keeping your skills up to date.

Your code looks very good. Nicely split into methods and its very similar to how I would of done it. There is no way I would say your Java skills were poor.

I toned down the code I posted above to keep it all in the main method because Peter didn't sound like he had grasped the concept of OOP on his last assignment.

I Just followed the requirements for functions etc lol! I made a small change to the load file function

Code :

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	public boolean readRoomFile(String file){
		Scanner fs;
		try{
			fs = new Scanner(new FileReader(file));
		}catch(Exception e){ return false; };
		for(String[] temp;fs.hasNextLine();){
			temp = fs.nextLine().split(";");
			dungeon[Integer.parseInt(temp[0])][Integer.parseInt(temp[1])] = temp[2];
		}
		return true;
	}

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Yeah the requirements help out a lot. It's basically step by step. No excuse for not completing this :rolleyes: