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