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in thread Perl subroutine update

hello Jethro, thanks for the time to assist me. I kind of experimented a little bit with the code a different way. if you run it without using strict or diagnostics, I get a close to an answer to what I need. Except that then new set of cards, has to be different than the new one and I'm having problems with my matching the one that turns for example H into Hearts.

############ Test.pl###########

#!/usr/bin/perl my @startingdeck = ("A H","2 H","3 H","4 H","5 H","6 H","7H","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"); my @random_card = @startingdeck; my $x = 0; while($x <= 4){ if (my @cards){ $_ =~ s/C/Clubs, s/S/Spades, s/H/Hearts, s/D/Diamonds; } my @cards = deckof(@cards); my @newcards = decko(@cards); print "@cards[$x] , @newcards[$x]\n"; $x++; }

#############test-lib.pl##############

#!/usr/bin/perl sub deckof{ my @cards = @_; foreach $card(@random_card){ my $element1 = (pop(@random_card), shift(@random_card), pop(@r +andom_card)); my $element2 = (shift(@random_card), pop(random_card), shift(@ +random_card)); push(@cards, $element1, $element2); } return @cards; } 1;

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Re^3: Perl subroutine update
by jethro (Monsignor) on Apr 05, 2011 at 15:59 UTC

    Well, sure, if you turn off warnings, naturally you get no warnings, but you are ignoring things that hint at problems with your code. By removing strict, you get fewer errors, but you also get no information when you mistype variable names. Do you think a script works better if it shows no error message but simple prints the wrong result? This is how politicans solve problems, by removing the warning signs ;-)

    You still haven't changed $element1 to @element1 in this script. Did you notice that you call your subroutine as "decko" in line 21?

    Another problem: you should not use foreach on an array when you change the array inside with pop,shift and push. Normally it leads to fewer loop executions as expected. In your case it is even fortunate that it does so because if it had run for every element in the array, your array would have only 1 or 2 cards left because you are constantly dropping cards (i.e. removing them from the array) with your broken shuffle

    Look at the script I posted to your first post about this problem in Re: Perl Subroutine. Notice that I used a different loop. I did it because foreach is not the right choice here

      sorry for the mistakes, I have been working on this for days and getting kind of frustrated, but I won't be better until I get the code right.

      ################test.pl############

      #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; require 'test-lib.pl' my @startingdeck = ("A H","2 H","3 H","4 H","5 H","6 H","7H","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"); my @random_cards= @startingdeck; my $x = 0; foreach(@cards){ $_ =~ s/C/Clubs/, s/S/Spades/, s/H/Hearts, s/D/Diamonds/; } my @cards = deckof(@cards); my @newcards = deckof(@cards); print "@cards[$_], @newcards[$_]\n" for 0..4; $x++;

      ############test-lib.pl############

      #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub deckof{ my @cards = @_; foreach my $card(1...30){ my @elements1 = (pop(@cards), shift(@cards), pop(@cards)); my @elements2 = (shift(@cards), pop(@cards), shift(@cards)); push(@cards, @elements1, @elements2); } return @cards; } 1;
Re^3: Perl subroutine update
by craziestfire73 (Initiate) on Apr 05, 2011 at 18:04 UTC

    sorry for the mistakes, I have been working on this for days and getting kind of frustrated, but I won't be better until I get the code right.

    ################test.pl############

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; require 'test-lib.pl' my @startingdeck = ("A H","2 H","3 H","4 H","5 H","6 H","7H","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"); my @random_cards= @startingdeck; my $x = 0; foreach(@cards){ $_ =~ s/C/Clubs/, s/S/Spades/, s/H/Hearts, s/D/Diamonds/; } my @cards = deckof(@cards); my @newcards = deckof(@cards); print "@cards[$_], @newcards[$_]\n" for 0..4; $x++;

    ############test-lib.pl############

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub deckof{ my @cards = @_; foreach my $card(1...30){ my @elements1 = (pop(@cards), shift(@cards), pop(@cards)); my @elements2 = (shift(@cards), pop(@cards), shift(@cards)); push(@cards, @elements1, @elements2); } return @cards; } 1;

      Ok, I see progress. Lets get those last warnings out of the way:

      First warning you get is for the line where you use substitution. I have an editor with syntax highlighting (emacs in my case, but padre and lots of other editors should have this too) and so could see directly where the problem lies. Look closer at the third substitution, "s/H/Hearts". Do you see it, there is a slash missing?

      Quite unrelated, using ',' to string the substitutions together is not working as you probably think it would, but since substitutions work on $_ per default, it actually still does what you want. So you could change the ',' to ';', but it works either way.

      Next, you still use @cards[$_] and @newcards[$_] in the string in line 22. Please change that to $cards[$_] and $newcards[$_] or the warning will not go away. Or simply write the line as

      print "@cards[0..4], @newcards[0..4]\n";

      which would have the advantage of printing the 4 cards of each shuffle together.

      If you rerun your script now, you get a warning "Global symbol "@cards" requires explicit package name at ./t7.pl line 21". You use @cards on line 21 before you declare it on line 25. And you don't initialize it. Where do you put values into @cards? Since you don't use @random_cards anywhere except in line 16 I suspect you meant to use @cards there. So change the name @random_cards to @cards in line 16 and remove the 'my' in front of @cards in line 25. If all went well you should have the following script, which actually works:

      my @startingdeck = ("A H","2 H","3 H","4 H","5 H","6 H","7H","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"); my @cards= @startingdeck; my $x = 0; foreach(@cards){ $_ =~ s/C/Clubs/, s/S/Spades/, s/H/Hearts/, s/D/Diamonds/; } @cards = deckof(@cards); my @newcards = deckof(@cards); print "@cards[0..4], @newcards[0..4]\n"; $x++;