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<CODE>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my ($miss, $guesses, $guess, @build, $tries, @guessed, @wordbank);
@wordbank=qw(cubicle scramble deduction envelope century rediculous); #as many words as you like.
my $selected=rand(scalar(@wordbank));
my (@word)=split(//, $wordbank[$selected]);
@build=("_") x scalar(@word);
$_=join('',@word);
$miss=0; $guesses="0-<--<"; $tries=0;
print "Welcome to HangPerl Hangman ver 0.56... mentained by: Nimster\n";
print "Word has "; print scalar(@word); print " letters\n";
print "Your hangman: "; print $guesses; print "\n";
print "Good luck! Start guessin`!\n";
while (1)
{
last if $miss==length($guesses);
last if join('',@build) eq join('',@word);
$guess=<STDIN>; chomp $guess;
$guess=lc(substr($guess,0,1));
$tries+=1;
if (m/$guess/)
{
print "right!\n";
for(my $index=0; $index<scalar(@word); $index++)
{
$build[$index]=$word[$index] if ($word[$index] eq $guess);
}
foreach my $letter (@build)
{
print "$letter ";
}
print "\n";
}
else
{
$miss++;
print substr($guesses, $miss, length($guesses)); print "\n";
}
}
print "It took you $tries tries ($miss misses) and ";
if ($miss < length($guesses)) { print "You made it!\n"; }
else { print "You failed.\n"; }
#it can be made much more effective easily (elimination of @word/$currword which are basically the same, same with some more variables, so changes in the algorythm, etc. However, this is my first try at a real, kinda full perl program. Soon to be ported to CGI, then maybe I'll add DBM highscores, etc.</CODE>
A newbie's hangman in perl. Not the most effective, but works.
Features are score, completion of the word from user input, and a slowly dying hangman. CGI version soon.
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