My BullCow Wrapup (Extra features and followup question)

[Chris_Curreri]

Here is my latest version of the BullCow game but I may add more features when I have spare time. I thought it was a little harsh that the player would lose points because they guessed something that was not an isogram or had the incorrect number of letters. I decided to fix that by adding a new function called IsValidGuess. It returns a boolean and an out parameter called problems. This gives us an FString that tells us why the player’s input is not valid. I wanted to concatenate it because I think it looks better when the bullet points are added after it says “Sorry, that was not a valid guess.”

However I am having a small problem where %i is not being replaced by HiddenWord.Len() when being passed into the FString function. Down below you’ll see that it reads “* Your guess has to be %i characters long.” I’m guessing that you have to do something special with FString since you did not override the method like PrintLine(). I tried passing the string into FString::printf() but the number that replaced %i was a large number in the hundred thousand range. I decided to not dwell on the problem right now. Hopefully as I continue to follow this course, and learn more about C++, I’ll be able to solve the problem. But if you know the answer I’d be grateful if you told me how to solve it.

My Code:

BullCow changes:

[Aryan_Kumar]

Can you try replacing the %i with %s and see what happens?

[DanM]

@Chris_Curreri

I thought it was a little harsh that the player would lose points because they guessed something that was not an isogram or had the incorrect number of letters

This was already how the game was coded. So a little confused about this.

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Your code is incorrect. The constructor you are calling does not do any formatting, you’re just giving it space to hold HiddenWord.Len() extra characters

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Core/Containers/FString/__ctor/6/index.html

FString::Printf was the correct thing to use. You don’t need "" either

FString Problems;
// code...
Problems += FString::Printf(TEXT("Some text %i", HiddenWord.Len());

Should work.