猜词游戏的问题

我正在尝试让Java将while循环的输出识别为变量，并在进一步的操作中使用该输出。

我想尝试让一位玩家设置单词，而另一位则猜猜它来升级它。问题出在使破折号等于玩家输入的单词中的字母数，所以我把代码分离出来了，这行得通。

但是，当我把它们全部放回去时main，它不会识别出循环结束后有多少破折号。它只能识别只有一个破折号的初始字符，因此会带来问题。

编辑：非常感谢你们，这是我第一次在堆栈溢出，再次是tnx。像魅力一样工作：D

package iB;
import java.util.Scanner;
 import java.lang.String;
 public class WordGuess {
/**
 * @param args
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    String secretWord ;
    String guess, dash = "-", upWord;
    int numGuesses = 0;
    int numWord;
    final String SENTINEL = "!";
    System.out.println("Player 2, please look away.    Player 1, please enter  the secter word: \n");
    secretWord = input.next().toUpperCase().trim();
    numWord = secretWord.length();
    //System.out.println("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");   
    for(int dashNum = 1; dashNum < numWord; dashNum++) {
        dash += "-" ;
    }
    System.out.println("WordGuess game!\n");
    do {
        System.out.println("Enter a letter (" + SENTINEL + "to guess entire word): ");
        guess = input.next().toUpperCase().trim();
        numGuesses ++;
      if (secretWord.contains(guess) && guess.length() == 1)    {
            upWord = dash.substring(0, secretWord.indexOf(guess));
            upWord += guess;
            upWord += dash.substring(secretWord.indexOf(guess) + 1, dash.length());
            dash = upWord.toUpperCase();
            System.out.println(dash);
            if (dash.equals(secretWord))    {
                System.out.println("You won!\n" + "The secret word is " + secretWord);
                System.out.println("You made " + numGuesses + " guesses."); }
      } else    if (guess.length() >= 2)    {
            System.out.println("Please only enter one letter at a time! \n");   }               
            if (guess.contains(SENTINEL)) {
            System.out.println("What is your guess? ");
            guess = input.next().toUpperCase().trim();
            if (guess.equals(secretWord))   {
                System.out.println("You won!\n" + "The secret word is " + secretWord);
                System.out.println("You made " + numGuesses + " guesses.");
                break;
            } else {
                System.out.println("You Lose!");
                System.out.println("The secret word was " + secretWord);
                System.out.println("You made " + numGuesses + " guesses.");
                    break;
                }
            }
        }   while(!guess.contains(SENTINEL));
        input.close();  
}

}