Thanks, Linda
No problems under Windows 10 in JQt 807.
I'm no good at Bridge, but might be persuaded to play whist!
If we want to choose Whist or Bridge, we need to specify the
size of a hand. In either case, you can use draw from the row-count
of deck rather than the product of x.
This consideration and some other slight changes lead to:
On 14/10/2018 00:47, Linda Alvord wrote:
This should now work in most J environments.
F=:52$'23456789TJQKA'
S=:13#u: 9824 9829 9830 9827
deck=:S,.F
shuf=: 13 :'<"2|."2 y {~ /:~"1 (|.x)$?~*/|.x
Save code above in a file and then run the script.
Here's how it looks in android.
13 4 shuf deck
┌──┬──┬──┬──┐
│♣A│♣J│♣K│♣9│
│♣Q│♣6│♣T│♣3│
│♦K│♣5│♣8│♦A│
│♦T│♣4│♣7│♦J│
│♦9│♣2│♦Q│♦8│
│♦6│♦2│♦7│♥K│
│♥A│♥Q│♦5│♥6│
│♥T│♥J│♦4│♥3│
│♥8│♥9│♦3│♠A│
│♥7│♥4│♠Q│♠K│
│♥5│♥2│♠T│♠9│
│♠8│♠J│♠7│♠6│
│♠5│♠2│♠3│♠4│
└──┴──┴──┴──┘
Linda
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