You should enter the words (or letters or numbers) on the command line like "perl permnodup.pl a a a b b c". Feel free to change this part of the code: 

#Sample use:
@ARGV= sort @ARGV;
do {
    print "@ARGV\n";
} while( nextpermute(@ARGV) );

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to do something else. Here is a more versatile version: 
#Sample use:
my @elts= @ARGV;
my $sep= " ";
do {
    if(  ! @ARGV  ) {
        print "What to permute? ";
        my $line= <STDIN>;
        chomp( $line );
        exit 0   if  "" eq $line;
        if(  $line =~ / /  ) {
            $sep= " ";
            @elts= split " ", $line;
        } else {
            $sep= "";
            @elts= split //, $line;
        }
    }
    @elts= sort @elts;
    my $cnt= 0;
    do {
        print ++$cnt, ": ", join( $sep, @elts ), "\n";
    } while( nextpermute(@elts) );
} while(  ! @ARGV  );
exit 0;

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        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re3: permute n elements2 by tye
in thread permute n elements2 by Anonymous Monk

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