I don't think I'd have trouble creating a perl script which found one-word anagrams for one-word input -- it seems fairly simple to find that CLEANSE is an anagram of SCALENE.

But how do you find anagrams when you're allowed multiple words in the outcome? Finding, that is, that CLEANSE is an anagram of "SEE CLAN", "SCAN EEL", "LES CANE", "SANE CEL" and so on and so on?

I know there are online services which do that kind of thing, but, I'm not much good on theory, isn't this one of those problems which turns into an n2, n3, n4 type problem, with n as a big number to start with?


($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to OT: How to find anagrams? by Cody Pendant

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