need urgent help on a project

[patrickstewetOG]

I'm just starting to use c++ and I've to make a hangman type game as a project. I have no idea what to do and need assistance thanks

It includes displaying a word from another file dictionary as asterisks then revealing the characters if the user guesses correctly. Any help would be appreciated

[EwCjE3v7]

You will need to learn to get input from files with std::ifstream: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/ifstream/

You will need std::strings, or char* arrays but they'll be harder and strings are recommended: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/


You will have to get the work from the file and then place that in a string, then make another string that has the same amount of asterisks as the word. So something like this

std::ifstream words("input.txt");

string word;

words >> word;
string guessWord(word.size(), '*'); 

Thats a little help to get you started, if you need more help you need to post the code where you have given it a try

[patrickstewetOG]

I've got this to open the file:

void openfile()
{
string getword;
ifstream inFile(“words8to10.txt”, ios::in);
if (!inFile.fail()) {
while (!inFile.eof()){
getline(inFile, getword);
cout << getword;
}
inFile.close();
}
else
cout << "File does not exist!";
}




i have to randomly select a word and output it as asterisks. I've got this so far:
void findword()
{
string dict[7926], secretword;
srand getword (time(NULL));
int randNumb = (rand() % 7926);
}