Java replacement of specific characters

Question

This is my first question on this site so i\'ll try not to be a total noob..

I\'m currently creating hangman game in java. So my question to you is if we are given a wor

Answer 1

I think the most easy way would be storing the state in a variable and by looping over the real world replace the matching characters.

private String word; 
private char[] state;

public void guess(char input){
    for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
        if (word.toLowerCase().charAt(i) == input){
            state[i] = word.charAt(i);
        }
    }
}

afterwards you can print the contents of "state".