Hey that's pretty smooth. I appreciate it!!
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Jeff Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try this chunk of code. I leave it up to you to add in a remove duplicates
> feature. Check cflib.org for some handy functions to do that.
>
> NOTE: I found it easier to build a list instead of an array simply because I
> could recurse with ListAppend but if I recurse with ArrayAppend it starts
> making a mess and then I'm mixing return types and other nasty stuff. So, I
> just created a helper to call ListToArray. :)
>
> <cffunction name="createWordArray" returntype="array">
> <cfargument name="dictionary" type="string" required="true">
>
> <cfreturn ListToArray(createWords("", dictionary))>
> </cffunction>
>
> <cffunction name="createWords" returntype="string" output="true">
> <cfargument name="word" type="String" required="true">
> <cfargument name="dictionary" type="String" required="true">
>
> <cfset var aList="">
> <cfset var newWord = "">
> <cfset var newDict = "">
>
> <cfif Len(dictionary) EQ 1>
> <cfset newWord = word & dictionary>
> <cfreturn newWord>
> </cfif>
>
> <cfloop from="1" to="#Len(dictionary)#" index="myChar">
> <cfset newWord = word & Mid(dictionary,myChar,1)>
> <cfset newDict = RemoveChars(dictionary,myChar,1)>
>
> <cfset aList = ListAppend(aList,createWords(newWord,
> newDict))>
> </cfloop>
>
> <cfreturn aList>
> </cffunction>
>
>
> <cfset chars = "abcd">
> <cfset myWordArray = createWordArray(chars)>
> <cfdump var="#myWordArray#">
>
> <cfset chars = "aaab">
> <cfset myWordArray = createWordArray(chars)>
> <cfdump var="#myWordArray#">
>
>
>
>
> >Given a string, e.g. "ABCD"
> >
> >I need to come up with all combinations of letters
> >eg
> >ABCD
> >ABDC
> >ACBD
> >ACDB
> >...
>
>
>
>
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