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Old 02-28-2012
passing letters from an array into a string for string comparison

attempting the hangman program. This was an optional assignment from the professor. I have completed the logical coding, debugging now.

##I have an array $wordString[] that initializes to a string of dashes
##reflecting the number of letters in $theWord
##every time the user enters a (valid) letter this function is called and $letter is passed to it as $1
function updateWordString()
{
for ((x=1;x <= $numberOfLettersInTheWord;x++))
do
currentLetter=$(echo $theWord|head -c $x|tail -c 1)
if [ "$1" == "$currentLetter" ]
then
wordString[$x]="$currentLetter"
fi
done
}


##The problem now is that i have an array that look like "f o o b a r"
##So when i want to test in the following function if the user has completed
## the word, in essence its testing if "foobar" == "f o o b a r"

function isGameOver()
{
if [ "$theWord" == "${wordString[*]}" ]
then
return 2
fi
}

touro nyc, msis616 Prof Robinson

Thanks
 

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ARRAY_INTERSECT_ASSOC(3)						 1						  ARRAY_INTERSECT_ASSOC(3)

array_intersect_assoc - Computes the intersection of arrays with additional index check

SYNOPSIS
array array_intersect_assoc (array $array1, array $array2, [array $...]) DESCRIPTION
array_intersect_assoc(3) returns an array containing all the values of $array1 that are present in all the arguments. Note that the keys are used in the comparison unlike in array_intersect(3). PARAMETERS
o $array1 - The array with master values to check. o $array2 - An array to compare values against. o $... - A variable list of arrays to compare. RETURN VALUES
Returns an associative array containing all the values in $array1 that are present in all of the arguments. EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_intersect_assoc(3) example <?php $array1 = array("a" => "green", "b" => "brown", "c" => "blue", "red"); $array2 = array("a" => "green", "b" => "yellow", "blue", "red"); $result_array = array_intersect_assoc($array1, $array2); print_r($result_array); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [a] => green ) In our example you see that only the pair "a" => "green" is present in both arrays and thus is returned. The value "red" is not returned because in $array1 its key is 0 while the key of "red" in $array2 is 1, and the key "b" is not returned because its values are different in each array. The two values from the key => value pairs are considered equal only if (string) $elem1 === (string) $elem2 . In other words a strict type check is executed so the string representation must be the same. SEE ALSO
array_intersect(3), array_uintersect_assoc(3), array_intersect_uassoc(3), array_uintersect_uassoc(3), array_diff(3), array_diff_assoc(3). PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_INTERSECT_ASSOC(3)
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