Every permutation of the alphabet up to 29 characters?

Question

I\'m attempting to write a program that will generate a text file with every possible permutation of the alphabet from one character up to twenty-nine characters. I\'ve chosen 2

Answer 1

A Java solution that should do the trick:

public void characterPermutations(int length, LinkedList permutations) {
    if(length > 1) {
        characterPermutations(length - 1, permutations);

        ListIterator iterator = permutations.listIterator();
        while(iterator.hasNext()) {
            String permutation = iterator.next();
            for(char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) {
                iterator.add(c + permutation);
            }
        }

    } else {
        for(char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) {
            permutations.add(c + "");
        }
    }
}