Thread: Cards - Suite and Name

Hello all. I am currently writing a program that opens a file, reads the numbers in the file, and takes those numbers and replaces them with words according to suit and name, similar to a deck of cards, and then prints them to another file. 0 is for quiting the program.

The second column is the suit, the first is the number of the card.

1 = Clubs
2 = Diamonds
3 = Hearts
4 = Spades

Example:

input from file:


1 4
11 3
4 2
0 0

output printed to seperate file:

Ace of Spades
Jack of Hearts
4 of Diamonds
final line quits the program

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My code so far

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

int main()

{

FILE *ofp;

ofp = fopen("Cards.dat", "r");

if (ofp == NULL)
{
 printf("Unable to open Cards.dat");
}

int numbers[100][2];
int r, c, n;

for (r = 0; r < 100; ++r)
   {
   for(c = 0; c < 2; ++c)
      {
      fscanf(ofp, "%d", &n);
      numbers[r][c] = n;

      if(numbers[r][c] == 0)
         {
         break;
         }

      }
   }

printf("%d\n", numbers[0][0]);
printf("%d\n", numbers[0][1]);
printf("%d\n", numbers[1][0]);
printf("%d\n", numbers[1][1]);
printf("%d\n", numbers[2][0]);
printf("%d\n", numbers[2][1]);
printf("%d\n\n", numbers[3][0]);

for(r = 0; r < 100; ++r)
   {
   for(c = 0; c <=1; ++c)
      {
      if(c == 0 && r == 0)
         {
         printf("%d of",numbers[r][c]);
         break;
         }
      }
   }

return 0;

}

File it's pulling from:

Code:

1 4
11 3
4 2
0 0

As you see at the bottom few lines of code I started with an if statement to check each of the values numbers[r][c]. This quickly led me down a path of many, many if statments and else if statements. What is a better solution to writing this?

You need a word[][] array, where word[1] is "Ace" and word[4] is "spades", etc.

Remember that word[n] has the address for the word at row n. So things like this, work fine:

Code:

fprintf(filePointer, "%s", word[n]); //write out the word at row n of word[][]