#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; my $size = shift; my @strings; sub recurse { my ($string) = @_; if (2 * $size > length $string) { recurse($_ . $string) for qw/ ( ) /; } else { push @strings, $string if eval "qw($string) and 1"; } } recurse($_) for qw/ ( ) /; say for sort @strings;