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\r\nvar input:String =  "a, b, c";\r\n\r\nvar words:Array = input.split(", ");\r\nvar max:String = "";\r\nvar maxD:String =  (words.length - 1).toString();\r\nfor (var i:int = 0; i<words.length; i++){\r\n\tmax += maxD;\r\n}\r\nvar maxInt:int = parseInt(max,words.length);\r\n\r\nfor(i = 0; i<=maxInt; i++){\r\n\t var indices:String = i.toString(words.length);\r\n\t var r:String = "";\r\n\t var k:int=0;\r\n\t for (var j:int = 0; j<indices.length; j++){\r\n\t\t r += words[parseInt(indices.charAt(j))] +" ";\r\n\t\t k++;\r\n\t }\r\n\t while(k < words.length) {\r\n\t\tr = words[0] +" "+ r;\r\n\t\tk++;\r\n\t }\r\n\ttrace(r);\r\n}\r\ntrace(i, " variations");\r\n<\/pre>\n
Like many things on this site, I coded this rather quickly and it can probably be cleaned up…<\/p>\n
Setting the input variable of the above snippet to “a, b” will output:<\/p>\n
a a
\na b
\nb a
\nb b
\n4  variations<\/p>\n
Setting the input to “a, b, c” will output:<\/p>\n
a a a
\na a b
\na a c
\na b a
\na b b
\na b c
\na c a
\na c b
\na c c
\nb a a
\nb a b
\nb a c
\nb b a
\nb b b
\nb b c
\nb c a
\nb c b
\nb c c
\nc a a
\nc a b
\nc a c
\nc b a
\nc b b
\nc b c
\nc c a
\nc c b
\nc c c
\n27  variations<\/p>\n
I created this to work with words… inputs like “bread, breath, blobs, backwards”. Be careful because you can quickly get millions of outputs:<\/p>\n
1 to the power of 1 is 1
\n2 to the power of 2 is 4
\n3 to the power of 3 is 27
\n4 to the power of 4 is 256
\n5 to the power of 5 is 3125
\n6 to the power of 6 is 46,656
\n7 to the power of 7 is 823,543
\n8 to the power of 8 is 16,777,216
\netc…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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