Re: generate all permutations possible? (twist)

just count from 0 to FFFFFF in HEX or count from 0 to 16777216 and print each output in HEX I'm sure there's a function for outputting a number in hex. of course, displaying 16million numbers to the browser will be time consuming, to say the least. :P Barry At 03:59 PM 4/3/2003, you wrote:

Hi Folks, I'm struggling with a permutation problem. I want to take a set of characters (for example "012345678ABCDEF") and generate all permutations of length N, allowing characters to be repeated. For example, I could use this algorithm to generate all HTML hex colors by passing: generatePermutations("012345678ABCDEF",6) Granted, this example would output some 16,777,215 items, but it would be a handy thing. Note that I could get these color values by running from 0 to FFFFFF in hex, but I am looking for something more general so I can play with anagrams, etc. I have seen some algorithms that generate permutations, but I don't want all permutations of "012345678ABCDEF", I just want all 6-digit permutations. I have searched all over for algorithms, and have beat my head against it, but it is just escaping me. Can anyone help? thanks, michael