title: Java homework hangman
body: <p>So for a class we are having to make a hangman game that can take a user input for a word and then have another person solve for it. It has to be able to recognize multiple repeating letters in the word or I would be done. Below is my code, it works great until I remove the break statement in my checkformatch method so that it goes past the initial finding of a letter. With the break in there it never finds the second third etc repeated letters, without it, it returns that each letter that is not the letter searched is a miss and reduces my life count. What I'm needing is some hints on how to search my array for the letter that is inputted as a guess and return their index positions in the array without it thinking each character in the array that is not the one guessed is a wrong input. Thank you in advance.</p>
  
  <pre><code>package hangman;
  
  import java.util.Scanner;
  
  class Game {
  int livesRemaining;
  String letterGuessed;
  String wordInput;
    char[] hiddenWord;
    char[] aOfWord ;
  
  Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
  boolean isFound;
  int a;
  
  
  public Game()
  {
      this.setLives(8);
      //this.output();
  
      System.out.println("Player 1 please enter the word to be searched: ");
      wordInput = input.nextLine();
  
      aOfWord = wordInput.toCharArray();
  
      hiddenWord = new char[aOfWord.length];
  
      for(int j = 0; j &lt; hiddenWord.length; j++)
          hiddenWord[j] = '*';
  
      this.output();
  
      while(livesRemaining &gt; 0)
      {
          System.out.println("Please choose a letter: ");
          letterGuessed = input.nextLine();
  
          this.checkForMatch(letterGuessed);
          if(isFound == true)
      {
          hiddenWord[a] = letterGuessed.charAt(0);
      }
      else
      {
          System.out.println("Is not found!");
          this.reduceLives();
      }
      this.output();
  
  
    }
  
  }
  
  public void setLives(int a)
  {
      this.livesRemaining = a;
  }
  
  public void reduceLives()
  {
      livesRemaining = livesRemaining -1;
      System.out.println("Lives remaining: " + this.getLives());
  
  }
  
  public int getLives()
  {
      return livesRemaining;
  }
  
  public void output()
  {
      System.out.println("Lives remaining: " + this.getLives());
      System.out.println("Word found so far ");
  
      for(int i = 0; i &lt; hiddenWord.length; i++)
      {
          System.out.print(hiddenWord[i] + "\n");
      }
  
  }
  
  public void checkForMatch(String l)
  {
  
      for(int i = 0; i &lt; aOfWord.length; i++)
          {
              //System.out.println("Comparing " + l.charAt(0) + " To " + aOfWord[i]);
              if(l.charAt(0) == aOfWord[i])   
              { 
                 isFound = true;
                 a = i;
                 break;
              }
              else
              {
                  isFound = false;  
              } 
          }
  
  }
  
  }
  </code></pre>