For that case you can get as simple as 

for( map '0'x$_ .. '9'x$_, 4..6 ) {

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but that chews up quite a chunk of memory. You can use tons less memory with something like 

    for my $len ( 4 .. 6 ) {
        my $pat = '0' x $len;
        while( $len == length $pat ) {
            # ...
            $pat++;
        }
    }

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But, of course, that won't help much if you hope to change your list of characters to something other than 0..9.

Algorithm::Loops would probably be quite helpful for this if you do hope to use characters other than digits. But I think I'll not code an example for that at this point, though it can be done fairly simply (or more complexly if you want a single iterator, for example).

- tye        

In reply to Re^4: Generate sequential array element combos (.. and ++) by tye
in thread Generate sequential array element combos by Anonymous Monk

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