If what I think you're doing is correct, your main loop will be attempting to experience 7,958,661,109,946,400,884,391,936 iterations. I say attempting, because I doubt that you (or I, or my children's children) will live to see such a program complete.

What your incrementation scheme is basicly implementing is a base 36 (26 letters + 10 digits) number. You are incrementing it up to 16 digits, so you'll have 36 ^ 16th iterations (try bc(2) for a quick util that supports arbitrarily large numbers).

Perhaps there is a better way to attack the problem you're trying to solve? I won't go any further, as this looks not unlike an attempt at cracking passwords.

In reply to Re: Iterating through string combinations by mortis
in thread Iterating through string combinations by patgas

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