All Possible Combinations

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hi..

Can any one help me in the following problem,which is
I want to get all possible combination of an array which is like this

char S[]={'a','b','c','d','e'......'z'}

I dont know how to go with this...

Thanks and Regards

Posted 24-Mar-11 2:28am

tanu misra

Updated 24-Mar-11 3:03am

Tarun.K.S

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CPallini 24-Mar-11 8:37am

What do you mean, exactly (you know, recursion is at the door...)?

tanu misra 26-Mar-11 1:17am

I mean to say that i want all combination array S[] which has lower case alphabets for example a,b,........z,aa,ab,ac..... and so on........

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Dylan Morley · Answer 1 · 2011-03-24T03:12:00

Solution 2

quite a nice thread on stackoverflow about this, have a read

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/361/generate-list-of-all-possible-permutations-of-a-string[^]

Posted 24-Mar-11 3:12am

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Tarun.K.S 24-Mar-11 9:16am

Interesting!

Nick Reshetinsky · Answer 2 · 2011-03-24T02:47:00

Solution 1

try to use inner loop:

C# version:

<code>
  char[ ] arr = { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', ......'z'};

  for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; ++i)
   for (int j = 0; j < arr.Length; ++j) // inner loop
   Console.WriteLine( arr[i] + " : " + arr[j]);

</code>

Posted 24-Mar-11 2:47am

Nick Reshetinsky

Updated 24-Mar-11 3:14am

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CPallini 24-Mar-11 8:48am

Well this works for just two elements...