Simple question (involving rand() i think)

Haven't written card games since Uni. Anyway, this is how I used to do it.

Code:

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// Declare a deck of cards
const int VALMAX = 13;  // 14 for some European sets
const int SUITMAX = 4;
const int DECKMAX = VALMAX * SUITMAX;
int deck[DECKMAX];

// Initialize the deck
remain = DECKMAX;
for (int i = 0; i < remain; i++)
    deck[i] = i;

// Deal the next one
int choice = rand () % remain;
card = deck[choice];
// replace the chosen card with the last card in the remaining deck
remain--;
deck[choice] = deck[remain];

// Decoding
int value = card % VALMAX;
int suit    = card / VALMAX;

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It is sort of inline shuffling.

i'm sorry again, but what's a vector? i'm familiar with it in terms of math (as in, a magnitude and direction), but is that what a vector in C++ is?
thanks,
katy

In STL, you can think of it as an array where you don't need to worry about the size. For instance, you could start with an array of integers with no elements

vector<int> victor;

To add an element, say 200, into the vector

victor.push_back (200);

It will grow to the appropriate size. To retrieve the 10 element

int xxx = victor[9];

To modify the values

victor[9] = something;

That is about as simple as I can make it.