How would I translate my hand example into code?

I'm trying to come up with a while loop for hangman, I have a random word selected and then I used ~isspace to change the letters to a * symbol. I'm new to programming and am having trouble translating my hand example to actual code.

    word_hide = mystword;
    word_hide(~isspace(word_hide)) = '#';

My hand example is

• 1) get a letter from the player
• 2) check to see if it's in the mystery word
• 3) if it's in the mystery word, update the hidden word to show the letter there
• 4) if it isn't in the mystery word, update the counter for wrong guesses (+1)
• 5) ask player for a new letter

The game would end when there are 6 wrong guesses or if the word is guessed.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You might start with something like

if strcmpi(usersString, correctAnswer)
  % Then they guessed correctly.
  uiwait(msgbox('You got it right!'));
else
  % They got it wrong.
end

Put that in a while loop where you're counting the number of guesses, and so on.

[Katherine Brideau]

So far I have this, I'm not sure if I'm on the right track?

 % Hides the word by changing the letters to x's
  word_hide = mystword;
  word_hide(~isspace(word_hide)) = '#';

% Starts the counters for the game
right_guess = 0; 
wrong_guess = 0; 
pick = '';

while right_guess == 0
  %Displays the mystery word to player and asks for a guess
  fprintf('\nThe word is %s\n',word_hide);
  disp('Please enter a letter')
  guess = input('==>', 's');
  pick = num2str(guess);

    if strcmpi(mystword,pick)
        right_guess = right_guess + 1;
    else 
        wrong_guess = wrong_guess +1;
    end
end

[Image Analyst]

No. As soon as you increment right_guess, your loop will quit because of this line:

while right_guess == 0

Plus, you're asking your user to input only single letters, not whole words but the comparison will only be true if the whole word matches. I think you need to think some more about the logic. Try using strfind() if you want to find only a single letter. You might have a "hidden" word that starts out as all * and then change the * to the correct letter if they guess the letter correctly.

location = strfind(mystword, guess);
if ~isempty(location)
  word_hide(location) = guess;
  fprintf('%s\n', word_hide);
end