>I am building a poker applicaiton. > >Has anyone dealt with determining the value of a hand? > >I have the feeling I am making it even more complicated than necessary.
Everybody seems to be advocating a database-based approach. I wouldn't try to assign a value to each hand at all, you need a function that compares hands similar to the way humans do. 1. tokenize the hand so you know what you're dealing with for 9-9-10-J-2 you have "a pair of 9s", "a single J", "a single 10", and a single "2" in that order for K-K-K-10-10 you have "a full house, K's over 10's" (one token) comparing those hands, the full house token beats the pair of 9's token. If you had 9-9-J-J-2 vs 9-9-J-J-3, you'd compare the tokens in order - pair of J's vs pair of J's are equal, so check the next token.. pair of 9's vs pair of 9's are equal so check the next token.. Single 3 beats single 2. I'd write a class with functions to compare two tokens and tell you which one is greater than the other, or if they're equal. Then I'd write individual functions to compare like tokens (ie so the class can tell that a K high flush beats a 7-high flush). You'll also obviously need a function to do the tokenization of the original hand. Then you just compare tokens in descending order to determine which hand is better. It actually sounds like a fun project. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
