#! perl -slw use strict; permIt(split '', 'ABC---'); sub _next { my ($v) = @_; my $t = ($v | ($v - 1)) + 1; return ($t | (((($t & -$t) / ($v & -$v)) >> 1) - 1)); } sub permIt { my $l = @_; my @chars = grep $_ ne '-', @_; my $n = my $s = (1 << @chars) - 1; do { my $bits = pack 'V', $n; my @copy = @chars; my $str = join '', map { vec( $bits, $_, 1 ) ? shift( @copy ) : '-' } 0 .. $l - 1; print $str; $n = _next($n); } until ($n > ($s << ($l - @chars))); }