Problem Statement

Create a program to parse a single five card poker hand and rank it according to this list of poker hands.

A poker hand is specified as a space separated list of five playing cards. Each input card has two characters indicating face and suit.

Faces are:    a, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, j, q, k Suits are:    h (hearts),   d (diamonds),   c (clubs),   and   s (spades),   or alternatively,   the unicode card-suit characters:    ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠

Duplicate cards are illegal. The program should analyze a single hand and produce one of the following outputs:

The programs output for the above examples should be displayed here on this page.

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