Hi All,

I have been racking my brain on this, and I am sure that it is probably simple. What I have is 7 arrays with arbitrary number of elements in each. I would like to create a new array that contains combinations of the other seven in this manner:

1. Only one element from each of the 7 arrays.
2. minimum of 4 elements per element in final array


For example if I had the data: 
array1 = (a,b,c), array2 = (d,e), array3 = (f,g,h),
array4 = (i), array5 = (j,k) array6 = (l) array7 = (m)

Then the result should be an array that contained:
adfijlm
adfiklm
adgijlm
adgiklm
.
.
adfijl
.
.
adfij
.
.
cehi
.
.
iklm

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Does anyone have any pointers?

Thanks in advance,

Cameron

In reply to Combinations of an array of arrays...? by doowah2004

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