hangman Game

Hi
Im kinda a newbie and would like some help Please!!

Im writing a hangman Game for 2 players.
How it works is the user is prompted for a new word by means of a INput box . The assiged label then displays the word as "******" .
Now what I want 2 know is how to set the Eg: Word equel to an
array Eg: Secret word.

Eg:

word = inputbox (".....")


now how do i go about setting this returned value = to an array

Eg :secretword()
so that the guesses can be compared to that array


please help

Thanx

This will take a string from an InputBox and split it into an Array

Code:

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Dim Word As String
Dim vWord() As String

Word = InputBox("Enter word")

For i = 1 To Len(Word)
    ReDim Preserve vWord(i - 1)
    vWord(i - 1) = Mid(Word, i, 1)
Next i

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And you can use this function for the guessing of a letter:

Code:

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Function GuessLetter(ByVal sLetter As String, vArray As Variant)
    For i = 0 To UBound(vArray)
        'Make sure that only the 1st letter is chosen
        If vArray(i) = Left(sLetter, 1) Then MsgBox "Yes": Exit Function
    Next i
    MsgBox "No"
End Function

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Usage:

Code:

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GuessLetter "a", vArray

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This is no big deal, but it's probably better to ReDim the array only once:

Code:

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Dim Word As String
Dim vWord() As String

Word = InputBox("Enter word")

ReDim vWord(Len(Word) - 1)

For i = 1 To Len(Word)
    vWord(i - 1) = Mid(Word, i, 1)
Next i

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Like I said, no biggie.

Yeah, you're right; it will probably save time in the long run.