Re: Simple program needed (help)

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The number of permutations rises *very* rapidly as the list grows... 5
items have 120 permutations, 7 have a few thousand.

I had a program for doing letter permutations, but I've long since
lost it... sorry.


On 3/8/06, faz <guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
>
>
> posted by: faz <j7qw at yahoo.com>
>
> Hi
>
> I hope someone can help me out with a very SIMPLE program
> about whole string permutations. That is: given a list of strings,
> the required outcome is a complete set of all their possible permutations=
.
> It's like character permutations of a string, but this time it is
> whole strings instead of single characters that have to be permuted.
>
> I need this because I don't remember exactly the password to open
> my zipped archives, but i do remember the bits of strings
> that made up the long passphrase.
>
> Could someone kindly write a simple program that, after reading a set of
> strings contained in a .txt file (one string on each line),
> produces as output another .txt file containing all the possible
> permutations/combinations of those strings.
>
> For example, the text file with the set of strings may contain:
>
> HOUSE
> jolly
> ---
> 0&
> 99
>
>
> and the output file contains:
>
> HOUSE
> HOUSEjolly
> HOUSE---
> HOUSE0&
>
> and so on...
> ...with the word combinations growing extensively,
> so as to exhaust all the possibilities:
>
> e.g.
>
> ---99jolly0&
> jolly0&---99HOUSE
>
> etc. etc.
>
> Unfortunately I am not able to program it myself, so
> I would appreciate if someone could write this piece of
> software, compile it (for DOS or Windows) and send it to:
>
> lory88 at gmail . com
>
>
> I thank you all in advance.
>
> Lory
>
>
>
>


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