playing-card-signature

Parse playing card signatures, to programatically determine their rank and suit

Ranks: A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (or sometimes T), J, Q, K

Suits: ♣ clubs, ♦ diamonds, ♥ hearts, ♠ spades

When working with playing cards in software, the cards might be referred to using their signature. The signature is a shorthand notation of a card's rank and suit. For example, a card with a signature of 4s actually means the four of spades.

This library aims to provide a lightweight and reusable way to parse, validate, and process these card signatures, for the purpose of making it easier to work with them.

Note: This library supports the standard 52-card French deck only. Support for other decks is not planned.

Installation

yarn add playing-card-signature

Usage

const { parse } = require('playing-card-signature');
 
const options = {
  castTto10: false,
};
 
console.log(parse('4s', options)); // { rank: '4', suit: 's', signature: '4s', niceSignature: '♠4' }

API

parse(signature : string, options : object)

Accepts a card signature and an options object as parameter, and returns the parsed data from it:

• rank
• suit
• the signature itself
• nice signature (suit is displayed with respective unicode symbol)

Returns null if the signature could not be parsed.

Options

castTto10

Type: boolean
Default: false

If true, the program casts any T rank it encounters to 10.

validate(signature : string)

Validates the given card signature, and returns a boolean, indicating the result.

Valid examples:

• 8d
• kh
• as

Invalid examples:

• s4
• dd
• 11c

License

MIT © Máté Farkas