Hi,
using some functional programming to create an iterator you can end up with something like this:
use Modern::Perl;
#my $alphabet = ['a'..'z', 'A'..'Z'];
#my $word_length = 6;
my $alphabet = ['a'..'b', '_'];
my $word_length = 3;
sub create_dictionary {
my ($alphabet, $word_length) = @_;
my @odometer = (0) x $word_length;
my $len_alpha = @$alphabet;
my $exhausted = 0;
return sub {
my $str = undef;
if (!$exhausted) {
$str = join('', map { $alphabet->[$_] } @odometer);
my $add = 1;
@odometer = map { $_+=$add; $add = $_ >= $len_alpha ? 1:0
+; $_% $len_alpha } @odometer;
$exhausted = $add; # last carry == 1 => exhausted!
}
return $str;
};
}
my $dict = create_dictionary($alphabet, $word_length);
while (my $word = $dict->()) {
say $word;
}
I got the odometer idea (if I remember correctly) from "higher order perl"
http://hop.perl.plover.com/.
k
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