On Wednesday 28 November 2007 06:32, Dan Klose wrote: > Hi list, Hello,
> I am having a bad day and would really like some help (the coffee > hasn't). > > I have a list that looks like: > my @list = (1,2,3,4); > > I would like to generate all patterns that follow: > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 12 > 123 > 23 > 34 > 234 > 1234 > > > The list can be of any length and the next number in the list must be > the current number +1 ( i am not working with numbers - i think it is > easier to explain this way). > > How do I do this? I did look at the Combinatorics module however it > does not impose fixed ordering as far as I can see. Another way to do it: $ perl -le' my $list = join "", 1 .. 4; for my $len ( 1 .. length $list ) { for my $elem ( 0 .. length( $list ) - 1 ) { my $out = substr $list, $elem, $len; print $out if $len == length $out; } } ' 1 2 3 4 12 23 34 123 234 1234 John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/