1120: Access of undefined property shuffledArray - actionscript-3

Question

Please can you help me out I am new to as3 and I am trying to create a shuffled deck using the Fisher-Yates Algorithm. When I run the code with ctrl-enter it compiles with no errors but when I try to output it with trace(); it comes back with:
Scene 1, Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 6 1120: Access of undefined property shuffledArray.
Like I said I am new to this and it will be me doing something very stupid but all the same i'm stuck.
Here is the code
package src.CardDeck
{
public class CardDeck
{
public var allCards:Array = [];
public var cardNames:Array;
public var cardValues:Array;
public var gameType:String;
public var drawnCards:uint = 0;
public function CardDeck(game:String)
{
gameType = game;
cardNames = ["Ace","Two","Three",
"Four","Five","Six",
"Seven","Eight","Nine",
"Ten","Jack","Queen","King"];
if(gameType == "texasholdem")
{
cardValues = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,10,10,10];
}
makeSuit("Spade");
makeSuit("Heart");
makeSuit("Diamond");
makeSuit("Club");
}
function makeSuit(suitString:String):void
{
var card:Object;
for(var i:uint = 0; i < cardNames.length; i++)
{
card = {};
card.cardType = suitString;
card.cardName = cardNames[i];
card.cardValue = cardValues[i];
card.isDrawn = false;
allCards.push(card);
}
}
public function shuffleFisherYates():Array
{
var shuffledArray:Array = [];
var randomCardIndex: int;
do
{
randomCardIndex = Math.floor(Math.random()* allCards.length);
shuffledArray.push(allCards[randomCardIndex]); // add to mix
allCards.splice(randomCardIndex,1); // remove from deck
}while(allCards.length); // Meaning while allCards.length != 0
return shuffledArray;
}
}
}
and here is the .fla actions layer
import src.CardDeck.CardDeck;
var deck:CardDeck = new CardDeck("texasholdem");
trace(shuffledArray);
I know its probably something silly but i'm struggling.
Thanks in advance!
Paul

Answer 1

var deck:CardDeck = new CardDeck("texasholdem");
trace(shuffledArray);
This doesn't work because shuffledArray isn't defined there.
Try :
var deck:CardDeck = new CardDeck("texasholdem");
var array:Array = deck.shuffleFisherYates();
for(var i:int=0; i<array.length; i++)
{
trace(array[i].cardName);
trace(array[i].cardType);
trace(array[i].cardValue);
trace(array[i].isDrawn);
}

Answer 2

"shuffledArray" is a property inside of your CardDeck object. To access public methods and properties within it, you need to use the dot syntax:
trace(deck.shuffleFisherYates());
However, depending on what you are doing, you may not need to really be accessing the array directly, if your CardDeck object is meant to control the entire deck.