Hello fellow monks -

I have a weird question to ask, ive been sitting here trying to think up how to go about doing this but its stumped me. My perl skills are not very good.

I am making a script that finds all word combinations within a set of letters. For example, if you give it a,r,t it would give you tar, rat, art, and at. I plan to have it step through all the possible letter combinations and have it look it up in a dictionary file to see if it is actually a word. I have finished that part, the problem I am having is generating all of the words.

How would I go about generating a word, starting at one character, using only characters supplied by a user? Again, for example a,b,c,d it would need to go a, then ab, then ac, ad, b, ba, and so forth. Any ideas where to begin?

In reply to Finding words within a character set by ruhk

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