Question

I’m doing a poker game and have hit a wall. Any help would be great.

I have 12 card values. The values are chars either 2-9 or TJQKA (enumed below). I need to pass them to an int array such that their value is what gets passed (whether int value or enum value) instead of their ASCII.

for the example below, I want:

val[5] = {2,5,10,12,11}

instead of:

val[5] = {50,53,84,81,74}

enum cardvalues {T=10 , J , Q , K , A}
int val[5];


string value = "25TQJ";

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
    val[i] = value[i]; 
}

Answer 1

You’ll need a conversion function:

int to_card(const char v)
{
    switch(v)
    {
    case '2': return 2;
    case '3': return 3:
    // etc...

    case 'T': return 10;
    case 'J': return 11;

    // etc...
}

Then in your loop:

val[i] = to_card(value[i]);