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Thread: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

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    Default word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    import java.io.*;
    import java.util.Random;
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class WordGame
    {
     
        public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
        {
            final int RANDOM_LETTERS_COUNT = 10;
            final int TRIALS = 10;
            int score = 0;
            boolean invalidLetter;
     
            char[] letterPool = new char[RANDOM_LETTERS_COUNT];
            String[] userEntries = new String[TRIALS];
     
            // Initialise dictionary.
            System.out.print("\n\nLoading dictionary... ");
            Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary("brit-a-z.txt");
            System.out.println("done\nDictionary contains " + dictionary.words.length + " words.");
     
            String alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
            int index = (int)Math.floor(Math.random() * 26.0);
     
            String name;
            String word;
     
            InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
            // Read all the words from the dictionary (brit-a-z.txt) into an array
            BufferedReader fr = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("brit-a-z.txt"));
     
            Random r = new Random();
     
     
     
            char[] letters = new char[10];
            int[] points = new int[10];
     
            for(int j = 0; j < 10; j++){
                //System.out.print(alphabet.charAt(r.nextInt(alphabet.length())));
                letters[j] = alphabet.charAt(r.nextInt(alphabet.length()));
                System.out.print("\b");
     
            }
     
            for(int trial = 0; trial < TRIALS; trial++)
            {
                System.out.println("\nTrial " + (trial + 1) + " of " + TRIALS + ": ");
                System.out.println(letters);
                String[] wordsUsed = new String[10];
                System.out.print("Enter word: ");
                name = br.readLine();
                word = name.toUpperCase();
     
                for(int k=trial; k < TRIALS; k++)
                {
                    wordsUsed[k] = word;
                    if (wordsUsed[k].indexOf(word) !=-1){
                        //if the word is present
                        System.out.println(word + " not in dictionary ");
                        trial = k;
                        break;
                    } else if (wordsUsed[k].indexOf(word) ==-1){
                        //word is not in array
                        /*String[] search = readWords("brit-a-z.txt");*/
                        System.out.println(word + " was entered earlier");
                        trial = k;
                        break;
                    }
                    /*letters[k] = 
                    if (letters[k].indexOf(word) !=-1){
                        System.out.println(word + "is an invalid word");
                    }*/
                }
                /*for(int i=0; i<word.length(); i++) 
                {
                    word[i] = word[i].trim();
                }*/
     
                //search array in word
                //if statement - if word is already used, - let user try new word + not increase trials
                //is word is not used then continue
     
                WordGame.validWord(word, letters, score);
     
                points[trial] = word.length();
                score += word.length();
     
            }
            // Report total score at the end of the game.
            System.out.println("\nTotal score: " + score);
        }
     
        // Returns a random letter from the alphabet.
        static char getRandomLetter()
        {
            String alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
            int index = (int)Math.floor(Math.random() * 26.0);
     
            return alphabet.charAt(index);
     
        }
     
        // Checks is a word can be formed from a set of letters.
        static boolean validWord(String word, char[] letters, int score)
        {
            boolean invalidLetter;
     
            char[] copyOfLetters = letters.clone();
     
            for(int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
                invalidLetter = true;
                for(int j = 0; j < copyOfLetters.length; j++) {
                    if(word.charAt(i) == copyOfLetters[j]) {
                        invalidLetter = false;
                        copyOfLetters[j] = '*';
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if(invalidLetter) {
                    return false;
                }
                //number of points
     
            }
            int points = word.length();
            System.out.println(points + " points for " + word);
     
            return true;
     
        }
    }
    Last edited by Rabia; April 28th, 2014 at 09:12 AM.


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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Please edit your post and wrap your code with code tags:
    [code=java]
    YOUR CODE HERE
    [/code]
    to get highlighting and preserve formatting.

    Can you explain what problems you are having?
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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Hi
    Thanks for replying me, as you have read this code before the total score of words I have used if statement to check that the word is in the linked dictionary or not and I have to display some statements that the word is repeated or not, it is not in the dictionary. This is the only problem I got here.
    Thank you

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Please edit the post and wrap the code in code tags.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Quote Originally Posted by Norm View Post
    Please edit the post and wrap the code in code tags.
    sorry i don't know how to do it

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    If you can not edit the current post, create a new post.
    See post#2 for what the code tags look like.
    Put the first one before the code
    and the second one after the code.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    is that okay

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Is what OK? Look at your post and see how it's displayed.

    You missed this:
    and the second one after the code.
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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    actually that is comments and if you copy this code to blue j it will be fine but i will try to figure it out what u r saying.

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Look at some of the other threads on this forum. 99% of them wrap their code in code tags.
    I'm sure you can figure out how to do it.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Finally

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Is there output from the program that shows the problem?
    Post the output and add some comments to it that says what is wrong and show what the output should be.
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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    The dictionary of valid words for the game is given to you in the project folder and it is
    called brit-a-z.txt.

    Here is an example of how your completed program should behave:

    Trial 1 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: car
    3 points for CAR!

    Trial 2 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: ran
    3 points for RAN!

    Trial 3 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: flex
    4 points for FLEX!

    Trial 4 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: lend
    LEND is an invalid word!

    Trial 5 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: ran
    RAN was entered earlier

    Trial 5 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: race
    4 points for RACE!

    Trial 6 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: fan
    3 points for FAN!

    Trial 7 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: can
    3 points for CAN!

    Trial 8 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: fen
    3 points for FEN!

    Trial 9 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: ann
    ANN not in dictionary.

    Trial 10 of 10:
    N R A C X F L E N Y
    Enter word: near
    4 points for NEAR!

    Total score: 27

    --- Update ---

    the problem is i can't test that the word is in the dictionary or not

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    test that the word is in the dictionary
    Would that be done by the Dictionary class? There isn't a definition for that class posted.

    Does that class have a method that will say if a word is in the dictionary?
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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    import java.io.*;
     
    public class Dictionary
    {
        public String[] words = null;
     
        public Dictionary(String fileName)
        {
            try
            {
                BufferedReader fh = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
     
                int lineCount = 0;
     
                // Count the number of lines in the file.
                while(true)
                {
                    if(fh.readLine() == null) {
                        break;
                    }
                    lineCount++;
                }
     
                fh.close();
     
                words = new String[lineCount];
     
                fh = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
     
                for(int i = 0; i < lineCount; i++)
                {
                    words[i] = fh.readLine();
                }
     
                fh.close();
            }
            catch (IOException e)
            {
                System.out.println(e.toString());
            }        
        }
    }

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Where is the code to search the dictionary for a word?
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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    that's the problem i got

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    Ok. First Define what the method needs to do and then list the steps the code needs to take to do it.
    When that design is done, work on writing the code to do it.
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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    i am thinking that create a for loop n in then if statement

    --- Update ---

    i have to submit this in 45 mins but i think i can't complete this

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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    i have to submit this in 45 mins but i think i can't complete this
    Probably not.
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    Default Re: word game (problem how to check that the word is in the dictionary)

    but thanks for helping

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