Brute forcing it a little but you can count from 2222 to 9999, reject the numbers that contain 1 or 0 and print out the combinations for the rest. The combinations function avoid hardcoded loops by recursing through the data. E.g. you can add q and z in.
#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my %digit_letters = ( 2 => [qw(a b c)], 3 => [qw(d e f)], 4 => [qw(g h i)], 5 => [qw(j k l)], 6 => [qw(m n o)], 7 => [qw(p r s)], 8 => [qw(t u v)], 9 => [qw(w x y)], ); foreach my $comb(2222..9999) { combs('', split //, $comb) unless $comb =~ /[10]/; } sub combs { my $word = shift; my $first = shift; foreach my $combination (@{$digit_letters{$first}}) { if (@_) { combs($word.$combination, @_); } else { print "$word$combination\n"; } } }

In reply to Re: Adventures in multilingualism by inman
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