Zephyr Pellerin
11/22/2007 7:56:00 AM
I've been messing around with generating all possible combinations of a
set of letters, (Ala, a 6 letter set would start enumerating at "aaaaaa"
then move on to "aaaaab" so on and so forth, all the way down to
"zzzzz") by iterating through an array using slice() , Which is a pretty
good implementation for small tasks, But suppose I wanted to generate
larger sets, Is there a more efficient implementation than say
a=0
b=0
c=0
d=0
e=0
f=0
z = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l",
"m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"]
slice = z.slice(a) + z.slice(b) + z.slice(c) + z.slice(d) + z.slice(e) +
z.slice(f)
if...
else.... [Incrementing]
puts slice
Thank you in advance