CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user7530757
user7530757

Reputation:

How to multiply items in an array for example 4 lots of [ 1 .. 10 ] in F#

I am trying to put a deck of cards (Blackjack) into an array or list. I have seen this done before but can't remember the syntax and can't find it anywhere.

I need something like this let list = [ 1 .. 10; 10; 10; 10 ] * 4, but of course this doesn't work. If anybody could help I'd greatly appreciate it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 142

Answers (2)

DaveShaw
DaveShaw

Reputation: 52788

I'm not sure of the exact syntax you're after...

Ideally you want a list for suits and a list for cards and then you create a Cartesian Product, and it is probably easiest to store each card in the deck in a tuple of number, suit

let cards = [1..10]
let suits = [1..4]

let deck = seq { 
    for card in cards do //cards could just be [1..10]
        for suit in suits do //suits could be too
            yield card, suit }

//Show the answer
printfn "%A" (deck |> Seq.toList)

Usually a suit would be a Discriminated Union and you could map the numbers:

type Suit = 
| Hearts
| Spades
| Diamonds
| Clubs

let toSuit suit =
    match suit with
    | 1 -> Hearts
    | 2 -> Spades
    | 3 -> Diamonds
    | 4 -> Clubs

and change yield card, suit } to yield card, toSuit suit }

You could do the same with the cards to by having a DU from Ace -> King. I'll leave that as an exercise for you ;)

Finally, if you are after a generic function to this, you could write something like this - I don't recall this been in FSharp.Core, but I may be wrong.

let multiplyList xs by = seq {
    for x in xs do
        for y in [1..by] do 
            yield x, y }

let deck = multiplyList cards 4 |> Seq.toList

Upvotes: 1

Kirk
Kirk

Reputation: 289

It would be nice if you stated what language you are using, because the answer may be different. I think you are looking for an array of array. You'll like need a bunch of arrays to keep track of the card rank, suit, rank value, and whether it has been played, not played, or whatever you'd like. So you need something like:

ranks = ['A', 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 'J', 'Q', 'K']
rankValues = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10]
suits = [ 'spades', 'hearts', 'clubs', 'diamonds' ]

deck = [[ 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
        [ 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
        [ 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
        [ 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]
card = [suit, rank]

deck [suit][rank] = true
deck [suit][rank] = false

Upvotes: 0

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