Uri wrote: > > 13,4R52?52 > > R is rho, the matrix size and reshape operator. this dealt a 52 card > hand (? is the random and deal operator) and reshaped it to 4 hands of > 13 cards. Does it actually *deal*? If the randomization is good, you don't need to deal; so you can do this in perl: $hands[$_] = splice @shuffled, 0, 13 for 0..3; But if you want a real deal: $hands[$_%4][$_/4] = $shuffled[$_] for 0 .. 51; John Porter ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe