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NAME

Games::Solitaire::BlackHole::Solver::Golf::App - a command line application implemented as a class to solve the “Golf” variant of solitaire.

VERSION

version 0.10.0

SYNOPSIS

    use Games::Solitaire::BlackHole::Solver::Golf::App ();

    my $app = Games::Solitaire::BlackHole::Solver::Golf::App->new;

    $app->run();

And then from the command-line:

    $ golf-solitaire-solve-perl myboard.txt

DESCRIPTION

This solves deals of the "Golf" variant of patience and card solitaire . It is not related to Code golf. A script that encapsulates this application accepts a filename pointing at the file containing the board or "-" for specifying the standard input.

A board looks like this and can be generated for PySol FC using make_pysol_freecell_board.py

    Talon: TD KC 8H 8S 4S 4H KS 6D 8D 7C JD 9D 2H QD 3D AS
    Foundations: JH
    4C 7S 5S KH TC
    5H 2C 6C 6S TS
    QC QH 9C 7D AD
    5D 9S 3C 8C 4D
    2D 2S 6H AC QS
    7H KD JC 9H 3H
    AH JS TH 5C 3S

(PySol FC deal No. 24).

Other flags:

  • --version

  • --help

  • --man

  • --queens-on-kings and --no-queens-on-kings

    Enable and disable the ability to put queens on kings (which is disabled by default). This is a common variation on the solitaire rules.

  • --wrap-ranks and --no-wrap-ranks

    Wrap ranks: allow putting aces on kings or kings on aces. If enabled it also sets --queens-on-kings .

  • -o/--output solution_file.txt

    Output to a solution file.

More information about Golf Solitaire can be found at:

METHODS

$self->new()

Instantiates an object.

$self->run()

Runs the application.

SEE ALSO

The Black Hole Solitaire Solvers homepage is at http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/black-hole-solitaire-solver/ and one can find there an implementation of this solver as a C library (under the same licence), which is considerably faster and consumes less memory, and has had some other improvements.

AUTHOR

Shlomi Fish, http://www.shlomifish.org/

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to games-solitaire-blackhole-solver rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Games-Solitaire-BlackHole-Solver. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2010 Shlomi Fish

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

SUPPORT

Websites

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to bug-games-solitaire-blackhole-solver at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Games-Solitaire-BlackHole-Solver. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

Source Code

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

https://github.com/shlomif/black-hole-solitaire

  git clone https://github.com/shlomif/black-hole-solitaire

AUTHOR

Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/shlomif/games-solitaire-blackhole-solver/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2010 by Shlomi Fish.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The MIT (X11) License