Austin Marshall wrote:
> Evan Nemerson wrote:
>
>> I need to generate every possible combination of the the values in an
>> array. For example, if...
>>
>> $array = Array("A", "B", "C");
>>
>> I want to be able to do something like
>>
>> print_r(magic_function($array));
>>
>> which would output
>>
>> Array
>> (
>> [0] => "ABC"
>> [1] => "ACB"
>> [2] => "BAC"
>> [3] => "BCA"
>> [4] => "CAB"
>> [5] => "CBA"
>> )
>>
>> I really have no idea where to begin. The best lead I can think of is
>> that there are going to be n! elements in the output array, where n is
>> the size of the input array.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Evan
>>
>>
>>
>
> for ($x=ord("A");$x<=ord("Z");$x++)
> { for($y=ord("A");$y<=ord("Z");$y++)
> { for($z=ord("A");$z<=ord("Z");$z++)
> { $array[]=chr($x).chr($y).char($z);
> }
> }
> }
>
> is a quick suggestion. Haven't tested it.
>
>
never mind, wasn't paying attention.
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