Hi All! I have the following problem. Created a shuffle function for a deck of cards. When I call the function against an array once, everything looks good. When I execute the function a second time, the results from the first shuffle append to the second. Can somebody tell me why? Here is the script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

@deck = (card1,card2,card3,card4);


@shuffle1 = shuffle(@deck);
@shuffle2 = shuffle(@shuffle1);

print "@shuffle1\n";
print "@shuffle2\n";

sub shuffle () {

$e = 0;
$b = $#array;

while ($e < $b) {
    push(@newdeck, "$array[$e]","$array[$b]");
    $e++;
    $b--;
}

return @newdeck;
}

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In reply to When function is executed twice I get the results from the first set in the second by gstoykov

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