Question

I am currently attempting to create a simple blackjack game. In order to do so I have created an array for the values of my card like this, ValArray = ['A', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', 'J', 'Q', 'K']; what I need is to be able to assign a numerical value to each item in the array in order to count them. So that ‘A’ = 1 and ‘J’, ‘Q’, ‘K’ = 10. How do I assign these values to the array?

Answer 1

We can run a for loop in which we will traverse the array and assign numerical values to each character using conditional statements. We can write conditional statements like if-elseif-else to assign numerical values to the elements of the array.

if element of valArray is 'A'

assign it value 1;

else if element of valArray is '2'

assign it value 2;

else if element of valArray is '3'

assign it value 3;

else if element of valArray is '4'

assign it value 4;

else if element of valArray is '5'

assign it value 5;

else if element of valArray is '6'

assign it value 6;

else if element of valArray is '7'

assign it value 7;

else if element of valArray is '8'

assign it value 8;

else if element of valArray is '9'

assign it value 9;

else

assign it value 10;

the logic is same but the syntax can vary according to the programming language. For example, we can use directory or vector,etc. according to the programming language we choose.

In this way we can assign the numerical value to the elements of valArray