Hey monks... I have twenty four players, lets call them 'A'..'X'. A "team" consists of 4 "players". generating all the possible combinations from this list of 24 "players" is very easy using the Math::Combinatorics module: 

my @n = 'A'..'X';
my $comboObj = Math::Combinatorics->new(count => 4,
    data => [@n],
);

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there are 10626 possible combinations. However I would like to place a unique restriction on the combinations. I only want the ones in which no two "players" repeat on a team. Example: The first combo returned is A, B, C, D. because of this any future combo containing AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, or CD is invalid. I believe the next valid combo would be A, E, F, G. What would be the best way of generating the combos in this manner, or filtering the output from Math:Combinatorics to filter the list? Thanks

In reply to Unique Combos with Math::Combinatorics by ketema

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