C# Enumerations in random

Question

I have enum: Ten Jack Queen King Ace how can i make it a random i mean if a press a button it will display 5 cards randomly... like in the picture below my code: public enum m_Cards { Ten Jack Queen King Ace }; private void button1_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { m_Cards[] cHand = new m_Cards[5]; Random random = new Random(); } i tried adding for loop but says its missing a cast so i delete it... thank you for the help...

Vulpes · Answer

Try this: public partial class Form1 : Form { public enum m_Cards { Ten Jack Queen King Ace }; private Random random; private Label[] cardsDrawn; private Label[] results; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1_Load(object sender EventArgs e) { cardsDrawn = new Label[] { label1 label2 label3 label4 label5 }; results = new Label[]{label6 label7}; random = new Random(); } private void button1_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { m_Cards[] cHand = new m_Cards[5]; for (int i = 0; i { cHand[i] = (m_Cards)random.Next(5); // 0 to 4 cardsDrawn[i].Text = cHand[i].ToString(); } AnalyzeHand(cHand); } private void AnalyzeHand(m_Cards[] cHand) { label6.Text = ; label7.Text = ; int[] cardCounts = new int[5]; // all zero initially foreach(m_Cards card in cHand) cardCounts[(int)card]++; int nextResult = 0; for (int i = 0; i { if (cardCounts[i] == 2) { results[nextResult].Text = A pair of  + ((m_Cards)i).ToString() + s; nextResult++; if (nextResult > 1) nextResult = 0; } else if (cardCounts[i] == 3) { results[nextResult].Text = Three of a kind of  + ((m_Cards)i).ToString() + s; nextResult++; if (nextResult > 1) nextResult = 0; } else if (cardCounts[i] == 4) { results[nextResult].Text = Four of a kind of  + ((m_Cards)i).ToString() + s; return; // can't be any further results } } if (label6.Text == ) // no results printed yet { label6.Text = A straight; } } }

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

Hi Jonathan using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace WindowsFormsApplication1 { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } public enum m_Cards { Ten Jack Queen King Ace } private void button1_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { Random rand = new Random(); m_Cards a= (m_Cards)(rand.Next()% 5); textBox1.Text = a.ToString(); //MessageBox.Show(a.ToString()); } } } Thanks