I am making a program in the C90 standard using GCC in Ubuntu 10.04, that randomly generates a hand of 5 card structs and calculates if the hand is a flush, straight, etc.
My function to calculate straights is:
int isStraight(card hand[]) {
int i, count = 1, result = 0;
for (i = 0; i < HAND_SIZE-1; i++) {
if (hand[i].pips == ((hand[i+1].pips) + 1)) {
count++;
}
}
if (count == HAND_SIZE)
result = 1;
return result;
}
My main function:
int main(void) {
int i, j;
int numHands = 0;
int flushCount = 0;
int straightCount = 0;
int xOfAKindCount = 0;
int straightFlushCount = 0;
int fullHouseCount = 0;
int isTwoPairCount = 0;
card deck[DECKSZ] = {0};
card hand[HAND_SIZE] = {0};
stack deckStack = {0};
stack handStack = {0};
initDeck(deck);
shuffleDeck(deck);
reset(&deckStack);
for (i = 0; i < DECKSZ; i++) {
push(deck[i], &deckStack);
}
do {
reset(&handStack);
for (i = 0; i < HAND_SIZE; i++) {
push(pop(&deckStack), &handStack);
if (isEmpty(&deckStack)) {
reset(&handStack);
shuffleDeck(deck);
reset(&deckStack);
for (j = 0; j < DECKSZ; j++) {
push(deck[j], &deckStack);
}
}
hand[i] = handStack.s[i];
}
numHands += 1;
arrangeHand(hand);
flushCount += isFlush(hand);
straightCount += isStraight(hand);
xOfAKindCount += isXOfAKind(hand, 2, 0);
straightFlushCount += isStraightFlush(hand);
fullHouseCount += isFullHouse(hand);
isTwoPairCount += isTwoPair(hand);
printf("Flushes:%d Straights:%d SF's:%d Number of Hands:%d\r",
flushCount, straightCount, straightFlushCount, numHands);
} while (1);
printf("\n");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
My issue is my variable declared inside my function, result, is never set to 1 to indicate whether or not the hand is a straight, which therefore means my straightCount variable always remains at a value of zero. I do not have access to a debugger and in my mind the code I have makes sense. I'm new to programming in C, so if anybody could help me point out what is wrong with my function, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
int isStraight(card hand[]) {
int step = 0;
for(int i = 1;i < HAND_SIZE; i++)
if(hand[i].pip != hand[i-1].pip+1)
/* Substitute step with i!=1 if over-edge invalid */
if(step || hand->pip != 1 || hand[i].pip != hand[i-1].pip+13-HAND_SIZE)
return 0;
else
step = 1;
return 1;
}