Shuffling a deck of cards... how are you doing it in LSL?

When I write in VB, the way I shuffle a deck of cards is to randomize 52 variables, making sure no variable gets a duplicate integer.

Um... in other words, I declare variables for card1, card2, card3 ... card51, card52. Each variable is assigned a random value 1-52, with no duplicates.

Each individual card is assigned a number, and that number never changes. (i.e. 1=ace of spades, 2=two of spades...)

I use this method because some of the games I write are weird, and require the user to sometimes pick a card from the deck, and I need each and every face-down card to have a value defined at shuffle.

My question is, is it feasible to do it this way in LSL or will I be running into more difficulty than I want to?

Use a list to store the "deck" values.

Then use llListRandomize() to "shuffle" the deck.

Alternatively, you can use a more real-world solution, and write a method that does random position swapping within the list, but in LSL I think it would be highly inefficient.

Cool, thanks for the link... I love the wiki!!

The example code I copy and pasted from there is not randomizing the list though:

list foo = ["LSL", "is", "teh", "sucks"];
list bar = llListRandomize(foo, 1);
llSay(0,llList2CSV(foo));

I put it in a touch event and every time I touch the object, it says "LSL, is, teh, sucks". I reset and recompiled and it still is not randomizing it.

Umm...

foo is the original list
bar is the randomized list

you're llSaying the foo list, not the bar list

**Edit to note that I just noticed the bug is in the wiki sample code, it's not your bug. But it's still a bug, and easy to fix.

Yeah, I fixed the wiki. Sorry about that.

Ok cool... the new corrected code works! (Thanks!)