I ran your program as printed. the following : a a b b b c d
should have yielded 420 permutations. i get 4976 the same
number as how...permut n..". The text you wrote says "To use
it, first sort.... I'm a perl newbie,please give me layman
details to make this program work w/o duplicate permutations
and I will be eternally grateful to you!!!!
email address swanhits@hotmail.com should you choose
to be more direct. thanks waiting on your reply!!!