Not sure it helps a lot in your case, but this is one possible way to generate permutations in this session under the Perl debugger: 

  DB<1> @array=qw/a b c d/

  DB<2> $stringified = join ',', @array;

  DB<3>  @permutations  = glob "{$stringified}" x 2;

  DB<4>  map {s/(.)(.)/$1-$2/} @permutations

  DB<5> x  @permutations
0  'a-a'
1  'a-b'
2  'a-c'
3  'a-d'
4  'b-a'
5  'b-b'
6  'b-c'
7  'b-d'
8  'c-a'
9  'c-b'
10  'c-c'
11  'c-d'
12  'd-a'
13  'd-b'
14  'd-c'
15  'd-d'

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Of course, in your case, additional filtering would be necessary. I think that the modules mentionned by other monks are probably a better solution.

In reply to Re: How can one find out the pairwise difference and product between elements in a perl array without using a perl module? by Laurent_R
in thread How can one find out the pairwise difference and product between elements in a perl array without using a perl module? by supriyoch_2008

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