I've asked about this before but I'll be the first to admit I'm stuck on the recursion/logic of it.

By the way, there is, as far as I know, no openly-source or free anagram engine anywhere. There are some good websites (http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/) , but no offline Perl solution that I can find.

So, assuming that I have already created a dictionary-hash of "ur-words" where 

$dictionary{'eors'} = 'eros,ores,roes,rose,sore'

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then, what's my next move? Because for single words (in the answer), it's a no-brainer. Sort letters, lookup either fails or it doesn't, here are your words.

But for multiple words in the answer? (that website gives nearly 1300 possible anagrams for "perl wisdom") I need to use a permutation algorithm on my input string, then index through each permutation, looking for a string which matches a word in my dictionary ... then look at the left-over letters and perform the same process, then the left-overs of that process..? This is where it all gets a bit misty for me.

Any help gratefully received. Which permutation module/algorithm should I use for a start? For long strings the amount of permutations is huge.


($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Solving Anagrams by Cody Pendant

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