Re: permutations and STL containers

From:
annamalai <annamalai.gurusami@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:35:19 CST
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On Nov 1, 8:58 am, mpho <tjab...@gmail.com> wrote:

hello,

I have a q-tuple {X_1, X_2, ... , X_q} where each X_i$B!!(Bcan take only 2
values. Thus there will be 2^q (2 exponent q) q-tuples. I'd like to
create a list of all these 2^q permutations using an STL container
list; or perhaps array of vectors. Can anyone show me an efficient way
to do this.


I think using std::next_permutation() would solve your problem. Here
is an example program to get you started.

$ cat combi.cc
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>

enum V { A = 2, B = 8 }; // The two values

void init_vector(std::vector<V>& mis, int num) {
    // The value 'num' provides number of elements
    // that have first value ('A').
    size_t M = mis.size();
    for(size_t i = 0; i < M; ++i) {
        (i < num)
            ? (mis[i] = A)
            : (mis[i] = B);
    }
}

int main() {
    int combi = 0;
    std::vector<V> sp(4);
    size_t M = sp.size();
    std::ostream_iterator<V> Iter(std::cout);
    for(size_t i = 0; i <= M; ++i) {
        init_vector(sp, i);
        std::copy(sp.begin(), sp.end(), Iter);
        ++combi;
        std::cout << std::endl;
        while (std::next_permutation(sp.begin(), sp.end()))
        {
            std::copy(sp.begin(), sp.end(), Iter);
            ++combi;
            std::cout << std::endl;
        }
    }
    std::cout << "Total permutations: " << combi << std::endl;
}
$ g++ combi.cc
$ ./a.exe
8888
2888
8288
8828
8882
2288
2828
2882
8228
8282
8822
2228
2282
2822
8222
2222
Total permutations: 16
$

Rgds,
anna

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