I haven't coded in a while, so I did this small exercise to refresh my programming skills and to have some fun:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.014; use warnings; use autodie; use charnames ':full'; use List::Util 'shuffle'; use Getopt::Long; use Pod::Usage; GetOptions( "h|?|help" => \( my $help ), "hands=i" => \( my $hands ), "cards=i" => \( my $cards ), ) or pod2usage(1); pod2usage( -exitval => 0, -verbose => 2, -noperldoc => 1 ) if $help; deal(deck(), $cards, $hands); sub deck { my $n_cards = 52; my @suit = ( "\N{BLACK HEART SUIT}", "\N{BLACK SPADE SUIT}", "\N{BLACK DIAMOND SUIT}", "\N{BLACK CLUB SUIT}", ); my @rank = ((2 .. 10), qw(J Q K A)); my @deck; my $i = 0; while (@deck < $n_cards) { for my $s (@suit) { for my $r (@rank) { $deck[$i++] = "$r$s"; } } } return \@deck; } sub deal { my $deck = shift; my $n_cards = shift // 5; my $hands = shift // 1; my @shuffled = shuffle(@$deck); binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; for (1 .. $hands) { my @hand; for (1 .. $n_cards) { die "no more cards in deck ...\n" unless @shuffled; push @hand, shift @shuffled; } say(join " ", @hand); } } __END__ =head1 NAME cards - deal cards from deck of 52 cards =head1 SYNOPSIS cards [options] options: -h, -?, --help brief help message --hands N number of hands to deal [1] --cards N cards per hand [5] =cut

The script is to be seen on GitHub too.

It looks to me it might benefit from OOP, something like:

deck->new(cards => 52); deck->shuffle(); deck->deal(cards => 5, hands => 4);

I have little experience with OOP, so if you have some hints how to get started, just let me know.

There is not such thing as best practice unless you specify the context. -- brian d foy

In reply to Let's play poker by reisinge

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