#! /usr/bin/perl -l use Algorithm::Combinatorics ':all'; my $cards = 12; my $holes = 7; my $iter = combinations_with_repetition( [1 .. $holes], $cards - $holes ); while (my $x = $iter->next) { print "@{distrib($holes, $x)}"; } sub distrib { my @d = (1) x shift; ++$d[$_-1] for @{+shift}; return \@d; }