How to display randomly 52 cards between 4 players?

I have 4 players and I need to give randomly 52 cards to all four of them (13 cards per each player). Does anyone have an idea of a perfect algorithm.

I don't know how much of a help this is, but you can get Cards32.dll from Microsoft (it's free ;) ). I have never personally used it, but I have seen some other programs that use it (the code that is), and it doesn't seem that hard. It can even generate playing cards (if that's what you want!).

It was used in games like Microsoft Solitaire.

This is air code, so it might need a tweak or two, but it should get you close

VB Code:

Sub DealCards
dim i as integer
dim j as integer
dim k as integer
dim Card(51) as integer ' 52 cards
dim fFound as Boolean 
dim Player(3, 12) as integer ' 4 players, 13 cards each
dim iRnd as integer
 
for i=0 to 12
   for j = 0 to 3
        Do
            fFound = False ' reset flag
            iRnd = int(rnd * 52)
            for k = 0 to 51
                if Card(k) then
                    fFound=true ' Set flag
                    Exit For
                End if
             next k
             if not ffound then
                 Card(iRnd) = 1
                 Player(j, i) = Card(iRnd)
                 Exit Do
             end if
        Loop
    Next j
Next i

makes sense to me and it's sounds a lot better than what I did. I'll try your way next time I need to do something similar