That's a pretty dumb idea because the number of permutations grows even worse than exponentially. For instance, my /usr/share/dict/words contains 45427 entries, which is only slightly more than 8!, the number of permutation you get with 8 different letters.
If you don't want to use one of the many canned solutions that are out there (and why wouldn't you?), a reasonably efficient solution goes as follows:
- Create a histogram of your search word (so "car" becomes "1 a, 0 b, 1 c, 0 d, ...., 0 q, 1 r, 0 s, ..., 0 z").
- For all words in the dictionary, create a histogram of said word. If the histograms are identical, the words are anagrams of each other. (If you want to find words that can be made from a subset of the letters, look for anagrams which have values equal or less than your search word. For solutions with spaces (groups of words), recurse.)
But it's much better to use an existing solution written in C (C is much faster than Perl for this kind of work), and just qx it.
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