On Jul 3, 3:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amichai Teumim) wrote: > Subject: my deck of cards (once again)
Are you aware that you're reinventing a wheel? http://search.cpan.org/~akarger/Games-Cards-1.45/lib/Games/Cards.pm That module already has methods to shuffle a deck, deal cards out to hands, and pretty much anything else you'd want to do with a deck of cards. > The following shuffles up my deck of card For extraordinarily loose definitions of "shuffles". There is no randomness involved in your algorithm at all. You're far better off using Games::Cards as referenced above, or at least List::Util's shuffle() function. > and then prints out the top > five cards. I need it to work somehwhat differently. > > When I shift or pop an element, I need to > store it as a variable, then push it on to the array in a different > order from the original order. Well... *what* order? And what is preventing you from doing that? Save off each pop() or shift(), and then put it onto an array in whatever order you like. Could you explain what part of this is giving you difficulties? Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
