How to Convert letters to underscore

I am creating a hangman script and I need help:

I need to ask player 1 to enter a word and after the word is entered I need the word to be converted to underscores depending on how many letters there are.

For example if player 1 entered: Apple

Then the command window would:

clear

clc

_ _ _ _ _

Then Player 2 would have to guess the letters/word

[Stephen23]

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How to Convert letters to underscore

I am creating a hangman script and I need help:

I need to ask player 1 to enter a word and after the word is entered I need the word to be converted to underscores depending on how many letters there are.

For example if player 1 entered: Apple

Then the command window would:

clear
clc
_ _ _ _ _

Then Player 2 would have to guess the letters/word

[Rena Berman]

(Answers Dev) Restored edit

Answer 1

[Jonas]

which interpreter are you using? if you want to display an underscore eg with latex interpreter use '\_' instead of '_' .