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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - function to return permutations of n items out of m Post 303028497 by durden_tyler on Wednesday 9th of January 2019 01:38:08 PM
Old 01-09-2019
A very un-awk-like and more Perl-like script. Smilie

I added the sort routine because array iteration doesn't return the elements in order.
(Definitely not a good idea for large arrays.)

Note that the OP wants the results in an array for further processing in the same script.
I'm not sure how to retrieve the array elements in the order that they were inserted.
Maybe a forum member can suggest how to do so.

Code:
echo |
awk 'function generate_permutations(cs, item, n, k){
         if (k == 0){
             iter = iter + 1;
             arr[iter] = item;
             return;
         }
         for (i in cs){
             new_item = item""cs[i];
             generate_permutations(cs, new_item, n, k-1);
         }
     }
     {
          split("", arr, "");
          iter = 0;
          str = "a,b,c,d,e";
          n = split(str, charset, ",");
          k = 3;
          generate_permutations(charset, "", n, k);
          asort(arr);
          for (i=1; i <= iter; i++){
              printf "%s\n", arr[i];
          }
     }
    '


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NAME
Net::CLI::Interact::Role::Iterator - Array-based Iterator VERSION
version 1.121640 SYNOPSIS
my $count = $iter->count; $iter->reset; while ( $iter->has_next ) { print $iter->next; } DESCRIPTION
This module implements an array-based iterator which may be mixed-in to add management of a sequence of elements and processing of that sequence. The iterator is inspired by MooseX::Iterator but limited to arrays and adds many other facilities. The following section describes the methods provided by this class. USAGE
The slot used for storing iterator elements is named "_sequence" and you should write your consuming class to marshall data into this slot, perhaps via "BUILD" or "init_arg". For example: has '+_sequence' => ( isa => 'ArrayRef[Thingy]', init_arg => 'things', ); INTERFACE
count The number of elements currently stored in the iterator. Note that this is of course not the same as the index of the last item in the iterator (which is 0-based) first Returns the first item in the iterator. last Returns the last item in the iterator. item_at( $pos ) Returns the item at the given position in the iterator, or throws an exception if $pos is past the end of the iterator. The position is 0-based. insert_at( $pos, $iter ) Inserts the contents of the passed iterator starting at (not after) the position given. The passed iterator must also be a consumer of this role. The position is 0-based. append( $iter ) Shorthand for "insert_at" when you want to add the contents of the passed iterator after the end of the sequence. idx( $pos? ) Returns the index (0-based) of the current iterator cursor, or sets the cursor if a position (again, 0-based) is passed. An exception is thrown if you attempt to read the cursor position before having read any elements from the iterator, or if the iterator is empty. next Returns the next item in the iterator sequence, and advances the cursor. Throws an exception if you have already reached the end of the sequence. has_next Returns true if there are further elements to be read from the iterator. peek Returns the next item in the sequence without advancing the position of the cursor. It returns "undef" if you are already at the end of the sequence. reset Resets the cursor so you can iterate through the sequence of elements again. AUTHOR
Oliver Gorwits <oliver@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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