Question

I’m having a problem with my hangman program. I really think what I need to do is beyond what I understand about java. Here’s my code

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;

public class HangmanProject
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException
    {
        String scoreKeeper; // to keep track of score
        int guessesLeft; // to keep track of guesses remaining
        String[] wordList = new String[25];
        final Random generator = new Random();
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); // to read user's input
        System.out.println("Welcome to Nick Carfagno's Hangman Project!");
        // Create a scanner to read the secret words file
        Scanner wordScan = null;
        try
        {
            wordScan = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("words.txt")));
            while (wordScan.hasNext())
            {
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            if (wordScan != null)
            {
                wordScan.close();
            }
        }
        // get random word from array
        class pickRand
        {
            public String get(String[] wordList)
            {
                int rnd = generator.nextInt(wordList.length);
                return wordList[rnd];
            }
        }
        System.out.println(wordList);
    }
}

I was able to get the program to read a file and then print to screen, but I can’t figure out how to store the words from file into an array. I not advanced at all, so please try and be as thorough as possible.

Answer 1

You need to save the read line in a String object and assign it to a certain field of the array. For example:

wordList[0] = myString;

This would assign the value of myString to the first field of your array.