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Author Topic: Programming Problem: return every possible order of an array.  (Read 4734 times)

alivingspirit

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I'm looking for a simple algorithm that will give me every possible order of an array regardless of size.
For instance: An array of three elements [ 1, 2, 3 ] will give me [ 1, 2, 3 ], [ 1, 3, 2 ], [ 2, 1, 3 ], [ 2, 3, 1 ], [ 3, 1, 2 ] and [ 3, 2, 1 ]. It seems like there should be a pretty simple mathematical solution for this but I can't seem to figure it out or find it anywhere. :(

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Re: Programming Problem: return every possible order of an array.
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2009, 07:02 PM »
C++, <algorithm>, std::next_permutation ? :)
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Re: Programming Problem: return every possible order of an array.
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2009, 07:04 PM »
Wikipedia's page about permutations has example code. I find them quite simple :)

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Re: Programming Problem: return every possible order of an array.
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2009, 07:14 PM »
Cool. Thanks guys.  :)