You could do it with regular expression look-aheads. You have to make sure that you cater for input that has duplicate letters, e.g. butter or banana. You can mandate the length of result words in the regex without having to cut down your dictionary file.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $dictFile = q{2of12.txt};
open my $dictFH, q{<}, $dictFile
   or die qq{open: $dictFile: $!\n};

chomp(my @words = <$dictFH>);

close $dictFH
   or die qq{close: $dictFile: $!\n};

my $input = shift;
my $charCt = length $input;
my %chars;
$chars{$_} ++ for split m{}, $input;

my $charsWanted = join q{},
   map { qq{(?=@{ [ qq{.*$_} x $chars{$_} ] })} } keys %chars;
my $wordLength = qq{(?=.{@{ [ length $input ] }}\$)};
my $rxDict = qr{(?x)^$charsWanted$wordLength};

print
   map  { qq{$_\n} }
   grep { m{$rxDict} }
   @words;

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This seems to work quite fast, the reading of the dictionary file taking most of the time.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: Simple regex wordlist question by johngg
in thread Simple regex wordlist question by escherist

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