If you want to do it without the use of a module, you could (1) add the 15 numbers to an array (the deck) (2) choose a random number from the deck (3) remove that random element and add it to another array (your hand) (4) repeat until done (your hand has 10 numbers)
This sounds exactly like the solution below sans module: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my @nums = 1 .. 15; my @ten; for (1 .. 10) { push @ten, splice @nums, int(rand @nums), 1; } print "@ten"; "Absolut Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > greets to Peter Scott for pointing to Randal Schwartz's answer on C.L.P.M. > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=86hds1fa6n.fsf%40blue.stonehenge.com > > [SOLUTION] > use List::Util from CPAN > http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/Scalar-List-Utils-1.14/lib/List/Util.pm > > basically you use the module to create a group of numbers (like a card deck) > and then "deal" them randomly into an array. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>