As chromatic wrote, you should use the Fisher-Yates
shuffle.
However, you said splice wouldn't work for you--I'm curious
as to why. What was your code, using splice? I tried this:
while ($game_hand < 12) {
push @hand, splice @deck, rand @deck, 1;
$game_hand++;
}
and it worked for me.
This is, in fact, the very same algorithm that perlfaq4
warns against using.
So use the Fisher-Yates shuffle to shuffle your array.
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