Hello all! I’m trying to make a game that makes primary use of a deck of cards, but right now I’m having trouble making the deck random. My attempted method is to pop or shift (based on a random roll) the contents of array1 into array2 and back for a total of about 5 swaps ultimately ending with a nicely randomized array1 in array1. I’ve tried a couple different methods, but it always ends up a direct copy of array1 in array2.
function shuffle(){
for(i=0; i<=5; i++){
if(i/2 % 0){
swap = 1
}else{
swap = 2
}
if(swap=1){
while(array1.length > 0){
num = random(2);
if(num=0){
array2[array2.length] = array1.pop();
}else if(num=1){
array2[array2.length] = array1.shift();
}
}
}else if(swap=2){
while(array2.length > 0){
num = random(2);
if(num=0){
array1[array1.length] = array2.pop();
}else if(num=1){
array1[array1.length] = array2.shift();
}
}
}
}
}
If anyone could tell me how to fix this code, or even better a more efficient way to write a shuffle function, I’d be greatly appreciative. Please do excuse the mess, this is my first attempt at a real program.
