anyone else? I was hoping to do this in CF alone? Thanks
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thinking outside the box... You could use a database for this. Create a > table that contains a single column. That column contains a record for each > letter of the alphabet. Then, do a cartesian join to join that table to > itself, three other times. Concatenate the fields and you should have each > combination. > > That would get the first part without consideration of the second part. > > m!ke > > _____ > > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed 2/13/2008 4:57 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: all possible letter combinations > > > > > Given a string, e.g. "ABCD" > > I need to come up with all combinations of letters > eg > ABCD > ABDC > ACBD > ACDB > ..... > > And exlude strings like 'AAAA', 'AAAB' unless you pass a string with > duplicate characters > If I pass the string "AAAB" then it'd return: > AAAB > AABA > ABAA > BAAA > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298990 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
