I'm looking for different ways how to recognise whether a set of cards sufficiently fulfills a requirement. It's for an obscure game you probably don't know, so for sake of discussion let's talk about Poker instead, whose basic hands are well-understood by many people.

For instance, let's stringify our hand to '♥9 ♥9 ♠J ♠J ♠J' so we can operate on it. I want to find out whether that is one of the winning hands (it is) and which one it is (it's a 'Full House'). Before I spend too much time going down dead ends, are grammars a good approach for that sort of problem? If not, what else can you recommend for the general case? Need not be something complete from CPAN, pointers to suitable Web search terms are welcome, too.

In reply to Is Regexp::Grammars a suitable tool for recognising card game hands? by Anonymous Monk

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