Re: Pattern Matching Query

Update: Added missing brackets and an afterthought at the bottom. And corrected the error blakem pointed out below.

You don't need a regex, a simple index will do fine. This has the additional benefit that $run will give you a comparative value for determining the value of the hand.

if (($run = index('abcdefghijklm', $sorted_values,0)) > -1)
{
 # Do stuff...
}
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In fact, if you arranged for your sort of the cards to sort aces above kings, then you could use the $run values to determine which run has the higher scoring value. (I think. I'm not much of a card player :^)

Well It's better than the Abottoire, but Yorkshire!

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Re: Re: Pattern Matching Query by blakem (Monsignor) on Sep 17, 2002 at 12:55 UTC
A return value of 0 from index actually means it found the substr at position 0. An rv of -1 indicates failure. Therefore: `if (index('abcdefghijklm', $sorted_values) > -1) { # Do stuff... }` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l]