#include <iostream>
 
using namespace std;
 
 
int main()
{
    char array[5] = "John"; //chosen hangman
    char array2[5]; //populates with *
 
    char key; //ets a key from the user
    int life = 5;
    int correct = 0; // flag to 1 if char is in .
    int location = 10; //used to determine where the location is
 
     for (int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++)
         {
            array2[i] = '*'; //makes the *
         }
 
     for (int j = 0 ; j < 4 ; j++)
         {
            cout << array2[j]; //prints the *'s
         }
 
   while (life !=0) //if lives are greater than 0 carry on else don't
   {
    cout << "\nplease enter a guess , if you don't guess it right you loose a life" <<endl;
 
     cout << "guess is :  "  ;
     cin >>key; // grab key from user
 
 
         for( int guess = 0 ; guess < 5; guess++)
            if (array[guess] == key)
            {
              correct = 1; //if the element is found flag a 1 else flag a zero
              location = guess;
            }
           cout << location;
             if (correct ==1)
             {
               cout << "Congradulations, you've found a letter"<<endl;
             }
               else
               {
                life --;
                cout << "Woah, you just lost a life! , You now have only "<< life << " lives remaining" << endl;
               }
     }//while loop
 
 
 
 
   return 0;
}

 
    char array3[6] = "Hello";
    char array4[6] = "*****";
char keycode = 'H';
    {
       for (int k = 0; k < 5; k++)
       {
       if (array3[k] = keycode)
       {
          array3[k] = array4[k];
       }
    }
    }
 
    cout << array4;

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
 
using namespace std;
 
class HangMan {
public:
  HangMan ( const string& init );
public:
  int guess ( const char c );
  bool found() const { return mask.find ( '*' ) == string::npos; }
  void show() const { cout<< mask <<endl; }
private:
  string word;
  string mask;
  int guesses;
};
 
HangMan::HangMan ( const string& init )
  : word ( init ), mask ( init.length(), '*' ), guesses ( 0 )
{}
 
int HangMan::guess ( const char c )
{
  string::size_type i = 0;
 
  while ( ( i = word.find ( c, i ) ) != string::npos ) {
    mask[i] = word[i];
    ++i;
  }
 
  return ++guesses;
}
 
int main()
{
  HangMan h ( "hello" );
 
  for ( ; ; ) {
    char c;
 
    h.show();
 
    cout<<"Guess a letter: ";
    cin.get ( c ); cin.ignore();
 
    if ( h.guess ( c ) == 10 ) {
      cout<<"You lose"<<endl;
      break;
    } else if ( h.found() ) {
      cout<<"You win!"<<endl;
      break;
    }
  }
}

#include <iostream>
 
using namespace std;
 
 
int main()
{
    char array[5] = "John"; //chosen hangman
    char array2[5]; //populates with *
 
    char key; //gets a character from the user
    int life = 5;
 
     for (int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++)
         {
            array2[i] = '*'; //makes the *
         }
 
     for (int j = 0 ; j < 4 ; j++)
         {
            cout << array2[j]; //prints the *'s
         }
 
  while (life !=0) //if lives are greater than 0 carry on else don't
            {
                  cout << "\nplease enter a guess , if you don't guess it right you loose a life" <<endl;
 
                  cout << "guess is :  "  ;
 
                  cin >>key; // grab key from user
 
                for (int k = 0; k < 5; k++) //takes guess and checks it over
                 {
                      if (  key == array[k])
                      {
                          array2[k] = array[k];
                      }
                 }
 
                if (key!= array[0] && key!=array[1] && key!=array[2] && key!=array[3] && key!=array[5])
                {
                   life --;
                   cout << "You've just lost a life, you now have "<< life << "remaining\n"<<endl;;
                }
 
 
               for (int h = 0; h < 4; h++)
                   cout <<  array2[h] ;
            }
if (life == 0)
{
cout << "Your out of lives, do you wish to play again?" <<endl;
}
 
   return 0;
}

if (key!= array[0] && array[1] && array[2] && array[3] && array[5])

if (key!= array[0] && 
    array[1] != 0 &&
    array[2] != 0 &&
    array[3] != 0 &&
    array[5] != 0)

int i;
 
for ( i = 0; i < 5; i++ ) {
  if ( key == array[i] )
    break;
}
 
if ( i == 5 )
  --life;

for ( i = 0; i < 5; i++ ) {
  if ( array2[i] == '*' )
    break;
}
 
if ( i == 5 ) {
  cout<<"You win!"<<endl;
  break;
}