Egeland

exercise.main/Core.cs

@@ -10,23 +10,44 @@ namespace exercise.main
 {
     public class Core
     {
-       
+
         // Note:
         // IEnumerable is a class that the List inherits (ie List has all the functionality of IEnumerable)
         // IEnumerable allows you to use a foreach loop on the variable hands (which is a List of tuples)
-        
+
         //TODO: complete the winningPair method, without chaning the method signature
         public bool winningPair(IEnumerable<Tuple<string, string>> hands, out Tuple<string, string> result)
         {
-            result = new Tuple<string,string>(string.Empty, string.Empty);
 
-            // your code here...          
+            result = new Tuple<string, string>(string.Empty, string.Empty);
+
+            Dictionary<string, int> cardValues = new Dictionary<string, int>
+            {{ "2", 2 }, { "3", 3 }, { "4", 4 }, { "5", 5 },  { "6", 6 }, { "7", 7 }, { "8", 8 },
+            { "9", 9 }, { "10", 10 }, { "J", 11 }, { "Q", 12 }, { "K", 13 }, { "A", 14 }};
+
+            var handList = hands.ToList();
+            int topScore = 0;
+
+            foreach (var hand in handList)
+            {
+                if (hand.Item1 == hand.Item2)
+                {
+                    if (cardValues[hand.Item1] > topScore)
+                    {
+                        topScore = cardValues[hand.Item1];
+                        result = hand;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
 
             return result.Item1!=string.Empty ? true : false;
         }
         public int GetValueOfCard(string card)
         {
-            return  0;           
+            Dictionary<string, int> cardValues = new Dictionary<string, int>
+            {{ "2", 2 }, { "3", 3 }, { "4", 4 }, { "5", 5 },  { "6", 6 }, { "7", 7 }, { "8", 8 },
+            { "9", 9 }, { "10", 10 }, { "J", 11 }, { "Q", 12 }, { "K", 13 }, { "A", 14 }};
+            return  cardValues[card];           
         }
     }
 }