C# Array Problem

[neptune2k]

Hey, wonder if any1 can help me, its a fairly simple issue to deal with so im told but ive spent ages trying to work this out, but havnt got anywhere.:(( So was wondering if sum1 could lend a hand. Basically ive an array of strings and i want to randomly select a word out of this array Once the word is selected i then need to split the word into separate characters, so I can check the users input against each letter until they finally guess the word I know it seems alot to ask, but id really appreciate it if sum1 could provide some example I could follow in order for me to get mine working... Thanks in advance Neptune

[Lost User]

Random rand = new Random();
string[] somestrings = { "Hello", "World", "From", "An", "Array" };
string randString = somestrings[rand.Next(somestrings.Length - 1)]; // get a random string from the array
char[] characters = randString.ToCharArray(); // get an array of the characters from this particular string

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

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[Private_Void]

I would do something like this. public bool isMatch() { bool Matches = false; string[] asCompare = new string[4]; asCompare.SetValue("First0", 0); asCompare.SetValue("Second1", 1); asCompare.SetValue("Third2", 2); asCompare.SetValue("Fourth3", 3); Random ran = new Random(); int iVal = ran.Next(asCompare.Length - 1); string sValue = asCompare[iVal]; char[] chars = sValue.ToCharArray(); string sCharTracker = ""; for (int i = 0; i < chars.Length; i++) { sCharTracker = chars[i].ToString(); //Matches = //you would probably do your compare with a method call here// } return Matches;//This will be if it matches or not// }

[Guffa]

neptune2k wrote:

Basically ive an array of strings and i want to randomly select a word out of this array Once the word is selected i then need to split the word into separate characters, so I can check the users input against each letter until they finally guess the word

That's a one-liner. :) char[] chars = (new string[] { "some","words","in","an","array" })[(new Random()).Next(5))].ToCharArray();

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[neptune2k]

thanks guys, thats really helped, i get where i was going wrong now i know where to come in future if i hit any problems :)