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How can I take a string and differentiate it in different strings each one with 2 characters?

I was trying to do a program that analyzes poker hands, however I am extremely confused and I don't know where to start. The suits are represented by the letters C(clubs), D(diamonds), H(hearts) and S(spades).

The value of the cards is represented by the numbers and the letters A(ace), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T(ten), J(jack), Q(queen) and K(king).

The program is supposed to receive input like AS KC QC JH 9D.

But the difficult part is that it should be able to receive 5, 7, 9 or 10 cards (strings with 2 chars).

Note: each card is made of two chars (example: 2C). Thank you in advance :)

Solution

  • I will offer incremental suggestions in this answer:

    1. To determine how many cards are in the hand/set: you can call strlen(string) to count the number of characters in the string.

    2. Once you know how many cards are there, you can use a switch statement: switch(number_of_cards) { ... } to branch the processing logic into distinct cases.