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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Matching string Post 302168491 by earnstaf on Monday 18th of February 2008 02:20:31 PM
Old 02-18-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by robotronic
Is it a game? Smilie

Code:
WORD="nasty"

while true
do
   echo -e "Input a char: \c"
   read CHAR
   CHARS="${CHARS}${CHAR}"
   echo "$WORD" | sed "s/[^${CHARS}]/-/g"
done

That's a cool way to go about doing a hangman type game. Should be pretty easy to have it pick a random dictionary word to use for $WORD and then give a certain number of guesses and decrement the count each time a wrong letter is guessed. Thanks for killing time for me at work on a Holiday Smilie
 

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XTOKID(1)							   User Commands							 XTOKID(1)

NAME

       xtokid - Print all tokens found in a source file

SYNOPSIS

       xtokid [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Print all tokens found in a source file.

       -i, --include=LANGS
	      include languages in LANGS (default: "C C++ asm")

       -x, --exclude=LANGS
	      exclude languages in LANGS

       -l, --lang-option=L:OPT pass OPT as a default for language L (see below)

       -m, --lang-map=MAPFILE
	      use MAPFILE to map file names onto source language

       -d, --default-lang=LANG
	      make LANG the default source language

       -p, --prune=NAMES
	      exclude the named files and/or directories

       --files0-from=F
	      tokenize only the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F

       --help display this help and exit --version	     output version information and exit

       The following arguments apply to the language-specific scanners:

   C language:
       -k,--keep=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in single-token strings, keep the result

       -i,--ignore=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in single-token strings, toss the result

       -u,--strip-underscore
	      Strip a leading underscore from single-token strings

   C++ language:
       -k,--keep=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in single-token strings, keep the result

       -i,--ignore=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in single-token strings, toss the result

       -u,--strip-underscore
	      Strip a leading underscore from single-token strings

   Java language:
       -k,--keep=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in single-token strings, keep the result

       -i,--ignore=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in single-token strings, toss the result

       -u,--strip-underscore
	      Strip a leading underscore from single-token strings

   Assembly language:
       -c,--comment=CHARS
	      Any of CHARS starts a comment until end-of-line

       -k,--keep=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in tokens, and keep the result

       -i,--ignore=CHARS
	      Allow CHARS in tokens, and toss the result

       -u,--strip-underscore
	      Strip a leading underscore from tokens

       -n,--no-cpp
	      Don't handle C pre-processor directives

   Text language:
       -i,--include=CHAR-CLASS
	      Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token constituents

       -x,--exclude=CHAR-CLASS
	      Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token delimiters

   Perl language:
       -i,--include=CHAR-CLASS
	      Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token constituents

       -x,--exclude=CHAR-CLASS
	      Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token delimiters

       -d,--dtags
	      Include documentation tags

       Lisp language:

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to bug-idutils@gnu.org

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