#!perl -w use strict; # kenhirsch at myself.com 2002-08-23 my $r = shift or die "usage: combinations r a b c d e ...\n"; my @out = combinations($r, \@ARGV); for (@out) { print join(" ", @{$_}), "\n"; } # From Algorith L in Knuth Vol. 4 Sec 7.2.1.3 (not yet published) sub combinations { my ($t, $arrayref) = @_; my @c = 0 .. $t-1; my @range = reverse @c; my $j; my @result; $c[$t] = scalar(@{$arrayref}); $c[$t + 1] = 0; do { push @result, [@{$arrayref}[@c[@range]]]; for ($j=0; $c[$j] + 1 == $c[$j+1]; $j++) { $c[$j] = $j; } $c[$j]++; } while ($j < $t); return @result; }