Permutations
I saw this post which shows some VFP code to permute a string. For example, there are 6 permutations of “abc”:
abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba
There are n! permutations of a string of length n.
I dug up some old code that did the same thing in fewer lines.
nn=0
permute("abcd",0)
PROCEDURE permute(cstr,nLev)
LOCAL nTrylen,i
nTrylen= LEN(cstr)-nLev
IF nTryLen = 0
nn=nn+1
?nn,cstr
ELSE
FOR i = 1 to nTrylen
IF i>1 && swap nlev+1 and nlev+i chars
cstr= LEFT(cstr,nlev) + SUBSTR(cstr,nLev+i,1) +;
SUBSTR(cstr,nLev+2, i-2)+SUBSTR(cstr,nlev+1,1)+SUBSTR(cstr,nLev+i+1)
ENDIF
permute(cstr,nlev+1)
ENDFOR
ENDIF
RETURN
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Comments
- Anonymous
January 28, 2005
Here is another possible solution with little code:
* PERMUTATIONS
def'n:
* If M = (n)P(r) = P(n):(r) denotes the number of
* permutations of (n) distinct things taken (r) at a time,
* -- M = n(n-1)(n-2)...(n-r+1) = n!/(n-r)!
Permutations( "12345" )
PROCEDURE Permutations ;
( ;
tvThings AS CHARACTER, ;
tvStatic AS CHARACTER, ;
tvN AS INTEGER ;
) AS VOID
LOCAL iX AS INTEGER
IF VARTYPE(tvStatic)="L"
* First time procedure called, preset missing parameters.
CLEAR
PUBLIC lnPermutation AS INTEGER
lnPermutation = 0
tvStatic = ""
tvN = LEN(tvThings)
ENDIF
FOR iX = 1 TO tvN
IF tvN > 2
Permutations( RIGHT( tvThings, tvN-1 ), tvStatic+LEFT(tvThings,1), tvN-1 )
ELSE
lnPermutation = lnPermutation + 1
? lnPermutation, tvStatic+tvThings
ENDIF
tvThings = SUBSTR(tvThings,2) + LEFT(tvThings,1)
ENDFOR
ENDPROC - Anonymous
January 23, 2008
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