Is there any pre-built method for finding all permutations of a given string in JavaScript?

Question

I\'m a newbie to the JavaScript world. As the title mentions, I want to know whether there is any pre-built method in JavaScript to find all possible permutations of a give

Answer 1

function permutations(str){
  if (str.length === 1)
      return str;
  var permut = [];
  for (var i=0; i<str.length; i++){
      var s = str[0];
      var _new =  permutations(str.slice(1, str.length));
      for(var j=0; j<_new.length; j++)
          permut.push(s + _new[j]);
      str = str.substr(1, str.length -1) + s;
  }
  return permut; }

permutations('the');
//output returns:[ 'the', 'teh', 'het', 'hte', 'eth', 'eht' ]

Answer 2

<pre>
<script>

var count = 0;
var duplicate = false;

function FindAllPermutations(str, index) {
    for (var i = index; i < str.length; i++) {
        var newstr;

        if (index == i) newstr = str;
            else newstr = SwapLetters(str, index, i);

        if (!duplicate) {
            count++;
            document.write(newstr + "\n");
            if (i == index) duplicate = true;
        } else if (i != index) duplicate = false;

        FindAllPermutations(newstr, index + 1);
      }
  }

function SwapLetters(str, index1, index2) {
    if (index1 == index2) return str;
    str = str.split("");
    var temp = str[index1];
    str[index1] = str[index2];
    str[index2] = temp;
    return str.join("");
}

FindAllPermutations("ABCD", 0); // will output all 24 permutations with no duplicates
document.write("Count: " + count);

</script>