Provides methods for creating and handling a deck of cards. For full documentation click here.

• Getting Started
• Summary
• License

This module can be installed by adding playing_cards to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:playing_cards, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

[contains?(deck, card)]

Returns true if deck contains a given card, otherwise false.

[create_deck()]

Generates a standard 52-card deck as a list of strings.

[deal(deck, hand_size)]

Divides a deck into a hand and the remainder of the deck. The hand_size argument indicates how many cards should be in the hand. Returns a tuple with two lists. The first list contains number of cards split from the deck. The second list contains the remaining deck of cards. This function utilizes the Elixir Enum module split function.

[hand(hand_size)]

Returns a tuple with {hand, deck} where hand has hand_size number of cards.

[load(filename)]

Load a deck of cards from the specified filename. If the file does not exist

[save(deck, filename)]

Save a deck of cards to the specified filename for future access.

[shuffle(deck)]

Shuffles a deck of cards using the Elixir Enum module shuffle function.

MIT