Shuffle Cards and Deal

[killmequick]

need to make a program that shuffles a deck of cards and simply deals them into 4 hands
as soon as the program starts it will list something like this:
D9 H5 S10 C4 DJ C10 DA H2 D8 H10 D7 S9 HQ
and 3 more rows of 13

i have got this working correctly but is there anyway i could do it with a double array without using the constant characters. here is my code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <conio.h>

void shuffle( int wdeck[][13]);
void deal( const int wdeck[][13], const char *wface[],
	 const char *wsuit[]);
void pair( int a[]);
	
		  
int main()
{
	const char *suit[4] = {"H", "D", "C", "S"};

	const char *face[13] = {"A", "2", "3", "3", "5",
		"6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "J", "Q", "K"};

	int deck[4][13] ={0};

	srand( time(0));

	shuffle(deck);
	deal(deck, face, suit);


	return 0;

}

void shuffle(int wdeck[][13])
{
	int row;
	int column;
	int card;

	for(card = 1; card <= 52; card++) {
		do {
			row = rand() % 4;
			column = rand() % 13;
		}while(wdeck [row] [column] !=0);

		wdeck [row] [column] = card;
	}
}

void deal(const int wdeck[][13], const char *wface[], 
		  const char *wsuit[])
{
	int card;
	int row;
	int column;


	for ( card = 1; card <= 52; card++ ) {
		
		for ( row = 0; row <= 3; row++ ){

			for ( column = 0; column <=12; column++ ){

				if ( wdeck[row][column] == card ) {

					printf("%5s%-8s%\n", wface[column], wsuit[row],
					card % 52 == 0 );
					
					
				}		
			}
		}
	}_getch();
}

[cpjust]

Look at std::random_shuffle() in the <algorithm> header.

[Daved]

I would say it's better to have an array of one type (int or a special card type) and fill the array with all possible values. Then use random_shuffle on the array and you will have a shuffled deck. You then just iterate through the array to deal the cards. If you use an int, you can use the numbers 0 to 51 (or 1 to 52 or whatever) and use division and modulus to get the suit and rank of each card.

Your code looks like C code, though. If it is, then this should be in the C forum, and you won't be able to use random_shuffle. However, you can still mimic random_shuffle by using a loop. It's easiest to make the loop run from 51 to 0. Get a random number between 0 and the loop index and swap that value with the value at the loop index. Decrement the loop index and continue.