Starting with my code from a few days ago, Re^3: Searching for a Permutation Algorithm for nPr where n != r (A::Loops), I only had to make almost trivial changes (update; and then I mostly undid those two changes because I realized from your reply elsewhere that you only wanted certain lengths, not all lengths -- so I added two more changes to make the code more general and demonstrate that): 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Algorithm::Loops qw( NestedLoops NextPermute );

my @items= qw( prefix first middle last title );
my $choose= 3;
my $iter= NestedLoops(
    [   [ 0..$#items ],
        ( sub { [ $_+1 .. $#items ] } ) x ( $choose - 1 ),
    ],
    # Uncomment next line if you want all sizes <= $choose
    # { OnlyWhen => 1 },
);
my @choice;
while(  @choice= sort @items[$iter->()]  ) {
    do {
        print "@choice\n";
        # replace above line with your code
    } while(  NextPermute(@choice)  );
}

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Sorry, I don't have access to Perl from here at the moment, so it is untested. Update: Thanks to tkil for testing and other feedback.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Permutation seed generator (again) by tye
in thread Permutation seed generator by blahblah

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