(Golf) Ordered Combinations

[MeowChow]

The challenge is to write a sub that takes the paramters ($length, @symbols) and produces an ordered list of all sequnces of length $length that are combinations of characters from the list @symbols. The output ordering is based on the order of @symbols. Assume that @symbols is a list comprised of any quantity of one-byte ASCII chars.

My current attempt at 52 chars:

sub c{my$n=-1+shift;$n?map{my$c=$_;map$c.$_,c($n,@_)}@_:@_}

Example:

print join " ", c qw(2 a b c d);
print "\n";
print join " ", c qw(4 0 1);

# outputs
aa ab ac ad ba bb bc bd ca cb cc cd da db dc dd
0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001 1010 1011 1100 1101 
[phone]

Good luck, and may your efforts yield little code :)

   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print

[tilly]

If we don't have to be strict compliant...49.

sub c {
@r='';@r=map{$c=$_;map$c.$_,@r}@_ for 1..shift;@r
}

(Note: I handle the case of $n=0 correctly. The solution that you started with does not...)

[MeowChow]

(Note: I handle the case of $n=0 correctly. The solution that you started with does not...)

I can't slip anything past you, can I? :-)

   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print

[Anonymous Monk]

Is there any way to print these results to a file?

[sachmet]

51 :-)

#!/usr/bin/perl

sub c {my$n=-1+shift;$n?map{my$c=$_;map$c.$_,c($n,@_)}@_:@_};
sub d {my$n=shift;--$n?map{my$d=$_;map$d.$_,d($n,@_)}@_:@_};

print join " ", c qw(2 a b c);
print "\n";
print join " ", d qw(2 a b c);
print "\n";
print join " ", c qw(4 0 1);
print "\n";
print join " ", d qw(4 0 1);
print "\n";

[[e-mail]]

Hi, i am trying following script to create 9 letter combination but not works...waiting for 8 hours but my computer keep no result. but 7 letter is still ok. Can someone help me to solve the issue? #!/usr/bin/perl sub c {my$n=-1+shift;$n?map{my$c=$_;map$c.$_,c($n,@_)}@_:@_}; print join " ", c qw(9 a b c d e f g h i); print "\n";

[AppleFritter]

Howdy adolfo, welcome to the Monastery!

In general, you'll have better luck posting your question as a new top-level post in Seekers of Perl Wisdom. Also, while you're at it, please use <code> tags to format your code; see Writeup Formatting Tips for more.

Also: the particular solution to the "ordered combinations" problem here is a golfed solution, meaning that the aim was to use as few keystrokes as possible, at the expense of (among other things) readability, time and space complexity. Unless you're specifically interested in Perl golf, you're likely better off using a different solution.

[satchboost]

I know that I'm bending the rules a little, but this does get below 50.

sub c{my$n=pop;--$n?map{my$c=$_;map$c.$_,c(@_,$n)}@_:@_}

Example:

print join " ", c qw(a b c 2);
print "\n";
print join " ", c qw(0 1 4);
print "\n";