BlackJack Project: Skip over unused values in 2D Array

[DLcode20]

Hello, right now I am working on creating a multiplayer blackjack game, and have made a bunch of progress since starting over, however the one problem I am running into is being able to skip over values in the 2d array used to store the current players cards.

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <iomanip>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;
void gotoxy(int, int);
char suit(int);
int value(int);
char faceCard(int);
void updateTotal(int[], int[][8]);
void dealTwoCards(int[], int[][8]);
void dealCard(int[], int[][8], int[], int);  
void updateScreen(int[], int[][8], int[]);   


int main()
{
    int playerCurrentCards[11][8] = { -1 };//2d array that has 8 players with 11 cards, maximimum a player hand can have before busting (A,A,A,A,2,2,2,2,3,3,3) 
    int cards[52], picked[52] = { 0 }, cardIndex, totals[8] = { 0 }, numCardsDealtPerPlayer[8] = { 2 };
    char hitStand = ' ';
    srand(time(NULL));
    for (cardIndex = 0; cardIndex < 52; cardIndex++)
    {
        do
        {
            cards[cardIndex] = rand() % 52;
        } while (picked[cards[cardIndex]] != 0);
        picked[cards[cardIndex]] = 1;
        cout << cards[cardIndex] << endl;
    }
    dealTwoCards(cards, playerCurrentCards);
    int totalCardsDealt = 15;
    updateScreen(cards, playerCurrentCards, totals);
    // loop with a call to a function to deal cards to a player
    /*for (int j = 1; j < 8; j++) {
        gotoxy(0, 19);
        cout << "Would Player " << j << " like another card? (Please enter 'y' or 'n')";
        cin >> hitStand;
        while (hitStand != 'y' && hitStand != 'n') {
            cout << "That is not a valid choice. Please enter 'y' or 'n'). ";
            cin >> hitStand;
        }
        do {
            dealCard(cards, playerCurrentCards, numCardsDealtPerPlayer, j);
            updateScreen(cards, playerCurrentCards, numCardsDealtPerPlayer); 
            numCardsDealtPerPlayer[j]++;
            gotoxy(0,19);
            cout << "Would Player " << j << " like another card? (Please enter 'y' or 'n')";
            cin >> hitStand;
            while (hitStand != 'y' && hitStand != 'n') {
                cout << "That is not a valid choice. Please enter 'y' or 'n'). ";
                cin >> hitStand;
            }
        } while (hitStand == 'y');
        if (hitStand == 'n') {
            continue;
        }
        
    }*/
    // call a function to finish the dealer
    
    // call a function to determine win/lose/tie


    system("pause");
    return 0;
}
void gotoxy(int column, int row)
{
    HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    if (INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE != hConsole)
    {
        COORD pos = { column, row };
        SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, pos);
    }
    return;
}
char suit(int i)
{
    if (i == -1) {
        return ' ';
    }
    char c;
    c = char(i / 13 + 3);
    return c;
}
int value(int i)
{
    if (i == -1) {
        return 0;
    }
    int r;
    if (i % 13 == 0)
        r = 1;
    else if (i % 13 > 9)
        r = 10;
    else
        r = i % 13 + 1;
    return r;
}
char faceCard(int i)
{
    if (i == -1) {
        return 'e';
    }
    char c = ' ';
    if (i % 13 == 0)
        c = 'A';
    else if (i % 13 == 10)
        c = 'J';
    else if (i % 13 == 11)
        c = 'Q';
    else if (i % 13 == 12)
        c = 'K';

    return c;
}
void updateTotal(int total[], int playerCurrentCards[][8])
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
        total[i] = 0;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < 11; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
            total[j] += value(playerCurrentCards[i][j]);
        }
    }
}
void dealTwoCards(int cards[], int playerCurrentCards[][8])
{
    int nextCard = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
            if (i == 1 && j == 0) {
                continue;
            }
            playerCurrentCards[i][j] = cards[nextCard];
            nextCard++;
        }
    }
}

void dealCard(int cards[], int playerCurrentCards[][8], int numCardsDealtPerPlayer[], int currPlayer) {
    /*numCardsDealtPerPlayer[currPlayer]++;
    playerCurrentCards[numCardsDealtPerPlayer[currPlayer]][currPlayer] = cards[numCardsDealtPerPlayer[currPlayer]]; 
    return;*/
}

void updateScreen(int cards[], int playerCurrentCards[][8], int totals[]) { 
    int row = 0;
    system("cls");
    gotoxy(0, 0);
    cout << setw(8) << "Dealer" << setw(8) << "P1" << setw(8) << "P2" << setw(8) <<
        "P3" << setw(8) << "P4" << setw(8) << "P5" << setw(8) << "P6" << setw(8) << "P7" <<
        endl;
    row = 1;
    gotoxy(0, row);
    for (int i = 0; i < 11; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
            if (i == 1 && j == 0) {
                cout << setw(8) << "??";
                continue;
            }
            if (playerCurrentCards[i][j] == -1) {
                continue;
            }
            char cardSuit = suit(playerCurrentCards[i][j]); // Diamond, Heart, Club, Spade
            int cardValue = value(playerCurrentCards[i][j]); // 1-10
            char face = faceCard(playerCurrentCards[i][j]); // A, J, Q, K
            if (playerCurrentCards[i][j] >= 0) {
                if (face != ' ') {
                    cout << setw(7) << face << cardSuit;
                }
                else {
                    cout << setw(7) << cardValue << cardSuit;
                }
            }
            if (j == 7) {
                cout << endl;
            }
        }
    }

    updateTotal(totals, playerCurrentCards); 
    gotoxy(0, 17);
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
        cout << setw(8) << "Total";
    }
    cout << endl;
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
        cout << setw(8) << totals[i];
    }
    

}

The output:

  Dealer      P1      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7
     10♦      K♠      8♣      4♦      6♥      8♠      5♠     10♣
      ??     10♠      Q♥      6♣      7♥      2♣      6♠      7♠
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥
      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥      A♥





   Total   Total   Total   Total   Total   Total   Total   Total
      20      29      27      19      22      19      20      26Press any key to continue . . .

I understand that the AHearts are printing because the 0th card of the deck is the AHeart, however I thought I would be able to get around this by initializing the 2d array with -1, and then checking for a -1 when computing the logic but as you can see this does not work apparently. I am also still getting a value of 1 added to the totals when it should skip the values when doing the additions.

[DLcode20]

I have fixed the part I was asking about, but will leave it up for future reference.
While you can initialize a 2d array like:
int playerCurrentCards[11][8] = { 0 };
and have every object = 0, you can not do the same with -1 like I had. All I had to do was nested loop through and set each [i][j] individually.

[seeplus]

Yes - L19 will only initialise the first element to -1. The rest will be set to 0.

[jonnin]

you can set a block to any value with a vector...