RE: Combinations
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg49706] RE: [mg49672] Combinations
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:43:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Gregory,
Flatten[Outer[List, {a, b, c}, {a, b, c}, {a, b, c}], 2];
Map[SymbolName, %, {2}];
StringJoin@# & /@ %
List["aaa", "aab", "aac", "aba", "abb", "abc", "aca", "acb", "acc", "baa", \
"bab", "bac", "bba", "bbb", "bbc", "bca", "bcb", "bcc", "caa", "cab", "cac",
\
"cba", "cbb", "cbc", "cca", "ccb", "ccc"]
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
From: Gregory Lypny [mailto:gregory.lypny at videotron.ca]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Hello everyone,
Does Mathematica have a built-in function that will generate a simple
list all possible combinations of a list of strings? For example,
{a,b,c}, where the elements are strings, should give 3x3=27 triplets of
"aaa", "aba", etc.
I tried
In[4]:=Outer[{a,b,c},{a,b,c},{a,b,c}]
but I get
{{{a, b, c}[a, a], {a, b, c}[a, b], {
a, b, c}[a, c]}, {{a, b, c}[b, a], {a, b, c}[b, b], {a, b,
c}[b, c]}, {{a, b, c}[c, a], {a, b, c}[c, b], {a, b, c}[c, c]}}
which is going to be difficult to match with my data using BinCounts
and the like.
Regards,
Greg