Contest 45: 7 Card Draw

[Darryl]

Contest 45: 7 Card Draw
Deadline: August 31st, 2005 at 24:00 EST

Description:
Given 2 seven card poker hands your program will output the 5 card winning hand. This contest is coincidentally similar to mathschallnge #54.

Example:
input: ah kh qh jh 10h 10d 10s 5d 5c 5s 5h 2s 2h 2c
output: ah kh qh jh 10h


Input:
Input will be read from a text file entitled "input.txt". Each card is separated by a blank. There will be 14 cards per line, the 1st seven are hand1, 2nd 7 are hand 2. There will be up to 10 pairs of hands in the file.

Output:
For each set of hands output the winning 5 card hand, in case of ties, output either hand. Your answer should be printed to stdout with each winning hand followed by a new line.

Judging:

This is a Code Brevity contest. The program that produces the correct output using the fewest tokens will be the winner. I will use the same token counter we've used for previous contest

Fine Print:
- No macros
- All symbols will be lower case.
- Source must be in one *.cpp file called (your screen name).cpp.
- You must send the ENTIRE file, not just a function to do it. This means input, processing, and output.
- Program must compile on MSVC++ 2003 .NET, MSVC++ Express Beta, or Dev-C++ 5.0 beta 9.2 (4.9.9.2)
- must use use int before main, no gcc >?= (whatever that is) .

Submissions:
Send your entries completed in a single *.cpp file to littled at gmail dot com with the title "Contest 45". If it doesn't compile, I will let you know the errors and you will be given the chance to fix it until the deadline.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns about this contest, feel free to post here.

[Dante Shamest]

Do I need to know Poker?

[Wizard]

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/poker/poker.html

[Corsix]

A few test input files please?

EDIT:
You mention Input, Output, but not "Processing". Are we meant to output the winning hand from the 1-10 given? Or are we meant to output the best you can get from each hand? Is there always a winning hand? How do you define winning?

[Darryl]

Ok, you can download a test file here:
http://venus.walagata.com/w/darryl/input.txt

Each line in the file represents 2, 7 card hands. For those two hands you will output the winning(best) 5 card poker hand. There possibly could be a tie for example:

ah 5h 3h 2h 10h ad 3c as 5s 3s 2s 10s 3d 9h

both hands have an "equal" flush, therefore either flush is acceptable as the "Best" hand of the 2

[Beer Hunter]

Weren't all the letters supposed to be lowercase?

[Corsix]

Also, you've put two spaces between some of the cards.

[Togra]

I'm in, expecting this to be challenging!

[Darryl]

OK, sorry about that . . had used an old program I wrote that generates rand cards, didn't check the output... anyway I edited my previous text to reflect the new file. All lowercase and no extra spaces ( I don't think)

[Corsix]

Time for a token count:

Code: Select all

==Overall:==
C45.cpp 1326
==Breakdown:==
Includes 10
Declarations 10
Helper: PutInCardSuits 100
Generic Processing 68
  Royal Flush 71
  Straight Flush 144
  Four of a Kind 136
  Full House 145
  Flush 99
  Straight 292
  Three of a Kind 112
Input 94
Output 38

I've implemented checking for royal flush, straight flush and four of a kind, and already my token count is up to 577. (note: breakdown does not include things that cannot be optimised, like the declaration of main())

Edit: Implemented Full House and upto 796.
Edit2: Added flush, striaght and three of a kind, raising my overall count to 1326

[exomo]

Just another thing:

We should ALL use int main() and not main() as some did in one of the last contests. Of course you can save 1 token, but if we don't allow this it's equal chances for everybody. It is just very bad code, isn't it?

PS: Starting right now

[Beer Hunter]

Might want to disallow GCC's >?= operator as well.

[Darryl]

what's a >?= operator do?

OK I added those to the rules, also since there where complaints last time no quotes for standard headers like #include "iostream"

maybe instead of giving choice of compiler, should had said it should compile on all three

[Corsix]

also since there where complaints last time no quotes for standard headers like #include "iostream"

Damnit, why? It compiles without errors/warnings on both MSVC 2003.NET and Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2

I'm thinking compilation on both MSVC and Dev-C++ would be a good thing, as i think it only needs 1 token added ("const") to make my code compile on both.

Edit: In other news, I've finished my "first draft":

Code: Select all

==Overall:==
C45.cpp 1815
==Breakdown:==
Includes 14
Declarations 10
Helper: PutInCardSuits 100
Generic Processing 68
  Royal Flush 71
  Straight Flush 144
  Four of a Kind 138
  Full House 141
  Flush 125
  Straight 292
  Three of a Kind 146
  Two Pairs 197
  One Pair 146
  High Card 84
Input 94
Output 38

Now to make a testing program to check that it works in every situation...

[Darryl]

I just finished my first draft too, though I guess I can't officially enter. (or can I?)

As far as the "iostream" goes, I personally like it, I will remove that rule if there are no objections, however it's really kind of pointles because everyone will do it, giving no one an advantage.

Can someone please post the token counter program, the old links don't work anymore.


EDIT: Nevermind, found a link here: http://www.cyberkopia.net/gamer/modules ... d=6&lid=13



Here's the output I got for the test file:

3d 3s 6d ah as
5d 6s 7h 8s 9d
6c 6s kh ks ac
9h 10h 10s ad ah
8h 8d 5h 5d 5c

Now to make a testing program to check that it works in every situation...

if you want for testing purposes, I can generate a large list of hands, if your program can handle it. I kept the contest list short because I'd figure I'd visually check them.


EDIT: 1st Token count 2071
going to bed with 1870