// Copyright 2018-2022 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license. // This module is browser compatible. /** * Builds all possible orders of all elements in the given array * Ignores equality of elements, meaning this will always return the same * number of permutations for a given length of input. * * Example: * * ```ts * import { permutations } from "https://deno.land/std@$STD_VERSION/collections/permutations.ts"; * import { assertEquals } from "https://deno.land/std@$STD_VERSION/testing/asserts.ts"; * * const numbers = [ 1, 2 ] * const windows = permutations(numbers) * * assertEquals(windows, [ * [ 1, 2 ], * [ 2, 1 ], * ]) * ``` */ export function permutations(inputArray: readonly T[]): T[][] { const ret: T[][] = []; const k = inputArray.length; if (k === 0) { return ret; } // Heap's Algorithm const array = [...inputArray]; const c = new Array(k).fill(0); ret.push([...array]); let i = 1; while (i < k) { if (c[i] < i) { if (i % 2 === 0) { [array[0], array[i]] = [array[i], array[0]]; } else { [array[c[i]], array[i]] = [array[i], array[c[i]]]; } ret.push([...array]); c[i] += 1; i = 1; } else { c[i] = 0; i += 1; } } return ret; }