permutations.ahk

Generates all possible permutations of the input array or string using Heap's algorithm, which minimizes movement.

Installation

In a terminal or command line navigated to your project folder:

npm install permutations.ahk

You may also review or copy the library from ./export.ahk on GitHub

In your code:

#Include %A_ScriptDir%\node_modules
#Include permutations.ahk\export.ahk

result := permutations.generate("ahk")
; => [["a","h","k"], ["h","a","k"], ["k","a","h"], ["a","k","h"], ["h","k","a"], ["k","h","a"]]

result := permutations.generate("ahk", true)
; => ["ahk", "hak", "kah", "akh", "hka", "kha"]

result := permutations.generate(["Auto", "Hot", "key"], true)
; => ["AutoHotkey", "HotAutokey", "keyAutoHot", "AutokeyHot", "HotkeyAuto", "keyHotAuto"]

result := permutations.generate("AutoHotkey", true, 3)
; => ["AutoHotkey", "uAtoHotkey", "tAuoHotkey"]

API

Including the module provides an object with one method: .generate

generate(array, [stringOut, maxPermutations])

Returns an array containing all possible permutations.

Arguments

1. array (*): The array or string to find permutations of
2. stringOut (bool): Optional, whether or not not elements of the return array should be combined into strings. Default is false meaning the result will be an array of arrays.
3. maxPermutations (number): Optional, whether or not the number of permutations should be capped. This may be useful when dealing with a number of permutations that would otherwise take an excessive ammount of time to compute.

Returns

(array): An array containing all permutations.