Hey guys thanks for your help, after many hours of toil, I seem to have worked it out. I did all this BEFORE reading Marshall's reply. Feeling quite happy with myself for finally getting it to work :). Could I have some opinions on the way I went about it? Should I have done anything differently/more efficiently?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

OUTER: @suit=('spades', 'hearts', 'clubs', 'diamonds');
foreach  $suit(@suit) {
  INNER:  @types=( "ace","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","jack","
+queen","king");
  foreach $types(@types) {
    $card="$types of $suit";
    print "$card\n";
    $cardcounter++;
    push(@cards,$card,);
    }

}
print "\n"x2;
print "$cardcounter cards have been created\n";
print "\n"x2;

ATTEMPT:
for ($counter=1;$counter<11;) {
$i = int(rand(@cards)) ;
push (@alreadyused,@cards[$i]);
$count=grep (/@cards[$i]/i,@alreadyused);

if ($count<2) {
  print "Random card is: @cards[$i]\n";
  $counter++;
  push (@iterations,@cards[$i]);
}
else {next ATTEMPT;}
}

print "\n"x2;
$number=@iterations;
print "$number random cards have been chosen, with no duplicates";

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In reply to Re: Nested foreach loops by peterstriker
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