I am attempting to change the value 'K' to a value of 10 so I can add it to other numbers.

I am trying to program a card game called cadillac. I am using cell arrays for the deck and hands. i.e. hand = {['h','K'], ['s',num2str(9)],['s',num2str(8)]}; The lower case letters are the suit of the card and the second element is the value of the card. I can't figure out how to change the face cards (i.e J, Q, K, and A) equal their respective number values so I can compute the score of the hand.

A = 11;

K = 10;

Q = 10;

J = 10;

currentScore = 0;

hand = {['h','K'],['c',num2str(9)],['s',num2str(8)]};

card1 = cell2mat(hand(1));

card2 = cell2mat(hand(2));

card3 = cell2mat(hand(3));

if(strcmp('K',card1(2)))

card1(2) = uint8(10);

end

disp(card1(2))

[Jason Miller]

just to be clear this does not work and I have tried everything I could find.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Putting meta-data (e.g. the suits, card types) into variable names makes this task much harder.

Meta-data is data and should be stored in a variable, not in its name. For example, MATLAB is designed to work very efficiently with vectors (and arrays more generally), so using vectors is much better data design:

S = 'AJKQ';
V = [11,10,10,10];
C = 'J';
X = C==S;
V(X)

ans = 10

[Jason Miller]

Thanks, I think I can make this work to write a function that calculates the score