Riales is spot-on; using Data::Dumper to dump out @deck at several places will show this quickly enough.

As an aside, I spotted another issue when I was looking at this, and couldn't run it as-shown. There's some needless complexity in sub deck_maker, which I simplified to this: 

#DECK MAKER
sub deck_maker {
    my @deck = (); #the deck for returning
    my @types = ('spades', 'hearts', 'diamonds', 'clubs');
    my @cards = ( 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,'J','Q','K','A');
    for ( my $i=0; $i < 4; $i++) {
        for ( my $j=0; $j < 13; $j++) {
            my $newcard = $cards[$j] . " of " . $types[$i];
            push(@deck, $newcard);
        }
    }
    return @deck; #return the new deck
}

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D Ruth Bavousett

In reply to Re: What I am missing here by druthb
in thread What I am missing here by heatblazer

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