use strict;

print "Enter characters to permutate : ";
$_ = <STDIN>; s/\s+//g; split(//);

my ($last, $chars);
foreach (sort @_) {
    if ($_ ne $last) { $chars .= $_; $last = $_; }
}

for ($_ = length($chars); $_; $_--) {
    permutate($_, $chars);
}

sub permutate {
    my ($depth, $chars, $pre) = @_;
    if ($depth == 1) {
        print $pre.substr($chars,$_,1)."\n" for (0..(length($chars)-1)
+);
    }
    else {
        for (0..(length($chars)-$depth)) {
            permutate($depth-1, substr($chars,$_+1), $pre.substr($char
+s,$_,1));
        }
    }
}

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This takes input from STDIN rather than ARGV, but does print all the permutations correctly. It's a recursive solution using strings to track permutations.

In reply to Re: character generator by TedPride
in thread character generator by semio

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