not the prettiest code i've ever written, but it seems to do the trick.
#!perl -wl
use strict;
$_ = shift @ARGV || "CLEANSE";
our (%kw, %words);
my ($match, @matches);
my $future = {"" => ""};
sub sortword { return join("", sort pop=~/./g) }
sub dissect { my %h; map $h{$_}++, split(//,pop); return \%h }
sub scrub {
# make sure a word isn't longer than our
# kw or has chars kw doesn't
my $w = shift @_;
return 0 if length($w) > $kw{"len"};
my $d = dissect($w);
map {
return 0 if
!defined($kw{"d"}->{$_}) ||
$kw{"d"}->{$_} < $d->{$_}
} keys %$d;
return 1;
}
sub process {
# run one iteration through %words
my ($cand, @match, %future) = @_;
for my $w (keys %words) {
for my $c (keys %$cand) {
my $len = length($cand->{$c}) + $words{$w};
next if $len > $kw{"len"};
my $nk = "$c:$w";
$future{$nk} = sortword($cand->{$c} . $w);
if ($len == $kw{"len"}) {
push @match, $nk
if $future{$nk} eq $kw{"kw"};
delete $future{$nk};
}
}
}
return (\@match, \%future);
}
%kw = (
"word" => $_
,"len" => length($_)
,"kw" => sortword($_)
,"d" => dissect($_)
);
map { chomp; $words{$_} = length() if scrub($_); } <DATA>;
while (keys %$future) {
($match, $future) = process($future);
push @matches, @$match;
}
print "anagrams for " . $kw{"word"} . ":";
map print, @matches;
__DATA__
SEE
SCALENE
CLAN
EEL
BOB
PIZZA
SCAN
MONKS
PERL
perl -e'$_="nwdd\x7F^n\x7Flm{{llql0}qs\x14";s/./chr(ord$&^30)/ge;print'