In pseudocode:
function f(sofar, more)
{
array strings
foreach letter in more
{
strings = f(foreach+letter, more-letter)
}
return strings
}
HTH.
--Ben Doom
Greg Morphis wrote:
> anyone else? I was hoping to do this in CF alone?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thinking outside the box... You could use a database for this. Create a
>> table that contains a single column. That column contains a record for each
>> letter of the alphabet. Then, do a cartesian join to join that table to
>> itself, three other times. Concatenate the fields and you should have each
>> combination.
>>
>> That would get the first part without consideration of the second part.
>>
>> m!ke
>>
>> _____
>>
>> From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Wed 2/13/2008 4:57 PM
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: all possible letter combinations
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Given a string, e.g. "ABCD"
>>
>> I need to come up with all combinations of letters
>> eg
>> ABCD
>> ABDC
>> ACBD
>> ACDB
>> .....
>>
>> And exlude strings like 'AAAA', 'AAAB' unless you pass a string with
>> duplicate characters
>> If I pass the string "AAAB" then it'd return:
>> AAAB
>> AABA
>> ABAA
>> BAAA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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