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in thread Sum of N elements in an M element array

Seems perhaps at bit overly complex to me. Here is modified version of my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Algorithm::Permute;

my $p = Algorithm::Permute->new(['a','b','c','d','e'], 3);

my @results;

while (my @res = $p->next) 
{
   push @results, [@res = sort @res]; # use a different sort for numbe
+rs
}

my %seen;
@results = map {!$seen{"@$_"}++? $_:() }@results; # remove duplicates!

print join ("+",@$_)."\n" for @results;

__END__
Prints: Again I sorted results in program editor
        because actual program probably doesn't need
        that feature.

a+b+c
a+b+d
a+b+e
a+c+d
a+c+e
a+d+e
b+c+d
b+c+e
b+d+e
c+d+e

The unsorted output for reference::
a+b+c
b+c+d
a+c+d
a+b+d
b+c+e
a+c+e
b+d+e
c+d+e
a+d+e
a+b+e

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Now of course the code could be modified so that a duplicate is not inserted into the @results array to begin with. However, I would recommend this 2 step process because it is easier to debug.

Update: Improved Code, re suggestions from AnomalousMonk. 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Algorithm::Permute;

my $p = Algorithm::Permute->new(['a','b','c','d','e'], 3);

my @results;

while (my @res = $p->next) 
{
   push @results, [sort @res]; # use a different sort for numbers
}

my %seen;
@results = grep{!$seen{"@$_"}++ }@results; # remove duplicates!

print join ("+",@$_)."\n" for @results;

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Re^6: Sum of N elements in an M element array
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Feb 14, 2020 at 23:25 UTC

    The code can be further (slightly) simplified:

    • [@res = sort @res] to  [ sort @res ]
    • map {!$seen{"@$_"}++? $_:() }@results to  grep { !$seen{"@$_"}++ } @results;

    Be that as it may, johngg's approach of permuting indices is IMHO better because it is more general: it can be applied to an array of any mix of any type of elements with no worries about sorting: 

    c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More 'no_plan';
use Test::NoWarnings;

use Algorithm::Permute;
use List::MoreUtils qw(uniq);

use Data::Dump qw(dd);

my $ar_expected = [
    qw(0+1+2 0+1+3 0+1+4 0+2+3 0+2+4 0+3+4 1+2+3 1+2+4 1+3+4 2+3+4)
    ];

my @arr  = (1, 'two', -33, [ qw(f o u r) ], { V => 5 });
my $perm = Algorithm::Permute->new([ 0 .. $#arr ], 3);

my @allIndicePermsSorted;
while (my @res = $perm->next()) {
    push @allIndicePermsSorted, [ sort { $a <=> $b } @res ];
    }

my @uniqIndicePermsSorted =
    map [ unpack 'N*', $_ ],
    uniq
    sort
    map pack('N*', @$_),
    @allIndicePermsSorted
    ;

my $ar_got = [ map join('+', @$_), @uniqIndicePermsSorted ];

is_deeply $ar_got, $ar_expected, 'unique sorted indices';

done_testing;

dd [ @arr[ @$_ ] ] for @uniqIndicePermsSorted;

exit;

__END__
ok 1 - unique sorted indices
1..1
[1, "two", -33]
[1, "two", ["f", "o", "u", "r"]]
[1, "two", { V => 5 }]
[1, -33, ["f", "o", "u", "r"]]
[1, -33, { V => 5 }]
[1, ["f", "o", "u", "r"], { V => 5 }]
["two", -33, ["f", "o", "u", "r"]]
["two", -33, { V => 5 }]
["two", ["f", "o", "u", "r"], { V => 5 }]
[-33, ["f", "o", "u", "r"], { V => 5 }]
ok 2 - no warnings
1..2

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    (Actually, I think there are permutation algorithms that give unique sets in their original order to begin with! (Update: See e.g. Algorithm::Combinatorics::combinations(); I'm sure there are others!))

    Update: It might be advantageous to get rid of duplicates before sorting: gives sort less to do. For that, the somewhat syntactically awkward 

    my @uniqIndicePermsSorted =
    map [ unpack 'N*', $_ ],
    sort
 +( uniq
    map pack('N*', @$_),
    @allIndicePermsSorted )
    ;

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      I like your suggestions and code from johngg.
      Your point about grep is right on!
      This stuff about pack and unpack N can be a bit tricky.
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