[yossiy]

Hi,
I'm teaching Alice in a school for gifted children (1-day per week). First of all, I must say that this is by far my favourite class - the kids come out with such *cool* and creative ideas, I'm looking forward to see what they came up with each week...
Currently my students are working on their final projects in Alice. One of them wanted to build a "hangman" game (a little gory, as the hanging man becomes quite realistic...)
The thing is that I could not find a function like "substr" nor could I find any way of treating a string like an array of characters (you can understand that I have a C/C++ programming background).
Is there any way to go about this, or should I tell him to find another idea?
Yossi Yaron