I guess it's just me, but last time I needed to do something like this (verify that there were no cycles in macro definitions), Graph let concentrate on what I wanted to do and let me forget about the nit-picky graph management.

Then again, I have written an AVL tree implementation in FORTRAN, so I shouldn't talk too much about doing things the hard way.

I'd implement something like this: 

Create root-node hash
Current level is zero
Establish limits: max & min nodes per level, number of levels
root{A0} = add_levels($current_level, $level_limit, $min_nodes, $max_n
+odes);

sub add_levels {
    return if current level is > the limit, bump it if not
    calculate a random number between high and low limit
    new_level = {};
    for $n (0..$local_limit) {
      generate $name from level and $n
      new_level{$name} = add_levels($current_level, $limit, $min, $max
+)
    }
    return $new_level;
}

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The printing code will be similar, but you'll instead pass a string down the recursive call tree, adding level names until you run out of levels, then printing it. The recursion plus the loop will automatically follow all paths for you.

I have written a program to do this but I'm not posting it; you'll learn a lot more if you follow this outline and write it yourself; as you don't want to handwave the details via Graph, I assume there's a reason for writing it yourself -- and me writing it for you won't teach you anywhere near as much.

I recommend running under the debugger, as you'll be able to x the growing data structure as you go along and see if it's working.

In reply to Re: GRAPH is too complicated for my needs. by pemungkah
in thread Print all possible paths in a graph and some graph creation too! by tsk1979

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