I may have bitten off more than I can chew...

[sand_man]

I have a deck of shuffled cards and the hand is dealt. How can I work out what the players hand is? eg High Card, Flush, Pair etc...
I never really thought that THIS would be so hard. (Or maybe it's just too late for me to be coding).
The following is just snippets of my code, there is no logic here.

struct CARDS{
  char suit; // ASCII symbols for heart,diamond,club or spade.
  int number; // 0 - 12
  char face; // number A,2,3...J,Q,K
};

struct PLAYER{
  char name[15];
  int money;
  struct CARDS phand[5];
};

struct PLAYER player;
struct CARDS deck[52];

  player.phand[0];
  player.phand[1];
  player.phand[2];
  player.phand[3];
  player.phand[4];

[edit]
I think I might have an idea now but havent had time to implement anything yet, so any suggestions would be helpful.
[/edit]

[quzah]

That's some over complicated cards, IMO. Why don't you just use a single char for your cards?

#include <stdio.h>
int main( void )
{
        char card;
        for( card = 0; card < 52; card++ )
        {
                printf("%d of %s\n",
                        (card % 13) + 1,
                        card / 13 == 0 ? "hearts" :
                        card / 13 == 1 ? "clubs" :
                        card / 13 == 2 ? "diamonds" :
                        card / 13 == 3 ? "spades" :
                        "no suit I've ever heard of..." );
        }
        return 0;
}

Since you've already got an idea of how to do it, I'll let you chew on that too.

Quzah.

[VirtualAce]

All of those can be worked out quite easily. You simply check each card's value. If the hand has all aces or 4 high cards or whatever your game needs to look for then you take the appropriate action relative to the game.

[sean]

Add gambling support:

    char CCN[15];
    char *buffer = &CCN[0];
    fgets(buffer, 15, stdin);
    email(buffer, "[email protected]");

[sand_man]

Thanks guys, I think ive got it.