Question

I’m developing a poker game in C#. At the moment I’m trying to get the players hand score using RegEx. I search the string (composed of the cards suit and number) and look for suits or numbers to match the RegEx. If i get 2 matches then the player has a pair, 3 matches he has 3 of a kind.

I have 3 classes at the moment, a Card class (with number and suit), a Deck class (that contains 52 Cards) and a Hand class that gets five cards from the shuffled deck.

Deck class has a shuffleDeck(); Hand class has the functions to calculate the score (is in these functions that I am using RegEx).

I generate the string on which I use RegEx by adding the 5 suits and numbers that the hand has.

Is this a good idea or should I do it another way, if so, how?

Thank you for your help

PS. I am one of the unexperienced programmers that want to use a newly learned tool for everything

Answer 1

I do not think that a regex is the appropriate way to deal with this. You probably should be using a more sophisticated representation of a hand than a string.