Subj : Re: how to generate a sequence?
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 06:32 am


Neo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have problem, I want to generate all possible (unique) combinations of the
> following sequence:
>
>
> 123456789
> 213456789
> 312456789
> 321456789
> .
> .
>
>
>
> Symbols allowed : 1 - 9
> Though, symbols can be anything like A B C D E F G H I, not necessarily
> numbers.
> NOTE: there will be !n (Factorial n) lines of output, 'coz there can be !n
> combinations of n symbols.
>
>
> Algo. required! Do U have a quick solution in mind???

have you checked out any permutation algorithms?   source code is easy
to find online.

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