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in reply to Re^3: Sum of N elements in an M element array
in thread Sum of N elements in an M element array

Whilst it is true that no element is repeated, for the purposes of the OP, this solution will produce multiple results for the same three elements being summed in a different order. Some form of filtering, perhaps involving a numerical sort of element numbers, a pack to a string and a grep with a %seen hash, would be required to remove duplicates.

Update: Here's some code to show what I mean. All the faff with pack q{N*}, @{ $_ } is because we may be dealing with larger arrays where subscripts go into multiple digits. This code:-

use 5.026; use warnings; use Algorithm::Permute; my @arr = ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ); my $perm = Algorithm::Permute->new( [ 0 .. $#arr ], 3 ); my @allPerms; while ( my @res = $perm->next() ) { push @allPerms, [ sort { $a <=> $b } @res ]; } my @uniqPerms = do { my %seen; map { [ unpack q{N*}, $_ ] } grep { ! $seen{ $_ } ++ } sort map { pack q{N*}, @{ $_ } } @allPerms }; say join q{+}, @{ $_ } for @uniqPerms;

Produces:-

0+1+2 0+1+3 0+1+4 0+2+3 0+2+4 0+3+4 1+2+3 1+2+4 1+3+4 2+3+4

Cheers,

JohnGG