Amichai Teumim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > I want to shuffle a deck of cards and then print out the top > five cards.
Read the Perl faq entry on shuffling arrays (i.e. perldoc -q shuffle). If you're using a fairly recent version of Perl, this'll get you started. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use 5.008; use List::Util 'shuffle'; my @deck = shuffle("A H","2 H","3 H","4 H","5 H","6 H","7 H","8 H", "9 H","10 H","J H","Q H","K H", "A D","2 D","3 D","4 D","5 D","6 D","7 D","8 D", "9 D","10 D","J D","Q D","K D", "A C","2 C","3 C","4 C","5 C","6 C","7 C","8 C", "9 C","10 C","J C","Q C","K C", "A S","2 S","3 S","4 S","5 S","6 S","7 S","8 S", "9 S","10 S","J S","Q S","K S"); print "Your hand: " . join( ', ', @deck[0..4] ) . "\n"; __END__ HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/