Go fish deck initialization in C++

[techguy34]

I am new and not sure how to post but I am trying to build a go fish program and am trying to build the deck. Is this the best way to do it. This is what I have at this point.

#ifndef gofish_h
#define gofish_h


class gofish
{

public:





private: 


char deck[52]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,
            31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52};


1=AS;  8=8S;
2=2S;
3=3S;
4=4S;
5=5S;
6=6S;
7=7S;
           9=9S;
           10=10S;
           11=JS;
           12=QS;
           13=KS;
           14=AC;
           15=2C;
           16=3C;
           17=4C

player_onehand[25];

player_twohand[25];

int P1_book;
int P2_book;
int P1_book;
int P2_book;
void int_deck(); // put cards in to deck
void int_players_deck(); // put 7 cards in to two playrs hands


};
#endif

[whiteflags]

Yeah a simple array of numbers from 1 to 52 is a great representation. As long as you can verify pairs, just about anything can be called "the best way to do it" though.

[iMalc]

Well first off, as you may no doubt know, this will not compile. The reasons being:
You cannot initialise an array that is a member variable, like that. Instead you would need to use a constructor and a loop.
You cannot redefine the numeric constants 1 through 17 to be some other things which are unparseable tokens. I.e all variable names must start with a letter or underscore.
You cannot declare multiple varaibles with the same name within a class.

Having said all that, the idea itself, of simply storing a numeric value from 1 to 52 to represent each card is fine.