[Kc] Shuffling a deck of cards...

[Emmanuel Mejias]

I made the following changes....

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Emmanuel Mejias <emmanuel.mejias at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My instructor has asked me to use the pop, shift, and push functions to
> write a script that sufficiently "shuffles" a simulated deck of cards before
> printing the top five cards. I haven't quite got it down, but I was
> wondering, did I need to add the highlighted line in my code or something
> along those lines to indicate $element = pop (@deck) or is that what
> I'm using "push" for? Now it does pop A H to the bottom of the deck. So what
> exactly is it that I'm doing wrong?
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> @deck = ("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");
> foreach my $card (@deck){
>
      chomp (@mydeck);
       push (@mydeck, pop(@mydeck));
       push (@mydeck, shift(@mydeck));
       print "Cards: $card\n"
}
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