Re: A Word Game

I think I see a minor bug.

For example, if I hack the code to add the following line after the my $curr_word = ... line:

$curr_word = 'QUOTE';
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this has the affect of forcing a specific word, just for debug. When I run it, and guess the word "emote", it displays:

   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---
  | E | | M | | O | | T | | E |
   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---
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"M" shows up as gray, and "OTE" shows up as green, as expected.

However, the 1st "E" shows up as yellow. I interpret that to mean that the word should have 2 "E"'s. I expect the 1st "E" to be gray.

If I guess the word "smote", it displays the "S" as gray, as expected. Therefore, I think there is a problem when the guess has 2 of the same letter.

What do you think?

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Re^2: A Word Game (update) by LanX (Sage) on Feb 09, 2022 at 23:25 UTC
I think you are right about the behavior and it's not the way I saw wordle handling this case. But the OP didn't want to infringe any copyrights anyway... ;-) update more explicitly; The code does # Find letters that are in the word # Find letters that are in the word and at the correct position it should be the other way round, and correct positions excluded previous to step 2 Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^2: A Word Game by jwkrahn (Monsignor) on Feb 10, 2022 at 00:48 UTC
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, this is the bug to which I eluded, but I am working on it.	[reply]
Re^3: A Word Game by toolic (Bishop) on Feb 10, 2022 at 18:32 UTC
I tried the updated code, but I still get the same result. Did you test the code with QUOTE as the current word and EMOTE as the guess? Don't you see the 1st "E" as yellow?	[reply]
Re^4: A Word Game by jwkrahn (Monsignor) on Feb 10, 2022 at 21:28 UTC
Yeah, sorry, give me a few days to figure it out. :)	[reply]
Re^4: A Word Game by jwkrahn (Monsignor) on Feb 13, 2022 at 00:47 UTC
I think I've fixed everything.	[reply]
Re^5: A Word Game by wazoox (Prior) on Feb 14, 2022 at 15:43 UTC
Re^6: A Word Game by jwkrahn (Monsignor) on Feb 15, 2022 at 02:49 UTC