Allocating Values to Poker Hands

[Haikuo]

"have you changed your code so no a steal weel still qualifies for a straight?"

Yes.

As far as the PM goes, send them as you will, but I do appreciate if you can also share it with the forum. That is the whole idea why we are here, isn't?:smileylaugh:

Good Luck,

Haikuo

[brophymj]

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[brophymj]

Hi Haikuo

A couple of years ago you were kind enough to help me with the problem below. I've come back to use the code again but when I copy and paste it I get an error when I run the code

data HANDS;

array c[5] $3;

array x[52] $3 (&HANDS.);

array i[5];

ARRAY NUM(5) num1-num5;

ARRAY FST(5) $ 1 fst1-fst5;

n=dim(x);

k=dim(i);

i[1]=0;

ncomb=comb(n,k);

do j=1 to ncomb;

           call allcombi(n, k, of i

• );

           do h=1 to k;

                c=x[i];

           end;

           %SIM

           OUTPUT;

end;

KEEP C: RANK: num:;

run;

I thought this was to do with the dot so I replaced it with i[*] but I still get the same error, i.e. 

ERROR: Illegal reference to the array i.
ERROR: Illegal reference to the array c.

Do you have any idea what might be causing this. I was able to figure it out before but I don't have a copy of my original code. It's probably something tiny but I just need to know what the dot was supposed to be. 

Thanks

Matthew

[Rick_SAS]

Looks like some characters got garbled. The SAS syntax for applying a function to elements of an array is to use the OF keyword, like this:

OF i[*]

Thus the garbled line should be 

call allcombi(n, k, of i[*]); 

For an example (which uses ALLPERM instead of ALLCOMBI) see

"Generate all permutations in SAS"

[brophymj]

Thanks Rick

I made that change but I'm still getting the errors above. the code worked perfect a couple of years ago. 

[Rick_SAS]

I suggest you post your SAS log.