Enter a string and print out all the permutations of the characters in the string in dictionary order. For example, if you input the string a B c, you print out all the strings a B c, a C b, B a c, B C a, C a B and C B a that can be arranged by the characters a,b,c. Train of thought: 1. Forming recursive tree by recursion to achieve the effect of depth first and fixed initials 2. Depth first only after reduction 3. Retrospective Thought 4. A picture and a running process can only be realized slowly.
<?php function test($str,$start,&$res){ //Recursive Termination Conditions if($start==strlen($str)){ $res[]=$str; return; } // for($i=$start;$i<strlen($str);++$i){ if($i==$start || $str{$i}!=$str{$start}){ swap($str,$i,$start);var_dump($str.'==='.$start);var_dump($res);sleep(1); test($str,$start+1,$res); swap($str,$i,$start); } } return $res; } function swap(&$str,$a,$b){ if(!is_string($str)) return; $t=$str{$a}; $str{$a}=$str{$b}; $str{$b}=$t; } $str="abc"; $res=array(); //Call entry,Start with index 0 $res=test($str,0,$res); var_dump($res);
string(7) "abc===0" array(0) { } string(7) "abc===1" array(0) { } string(7) "abc===2" array(0) { } string(7) "acb===1" array(1) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" } string(7) "acb===2" array(1) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" } string(7) "bac===0" array(2) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" } string(7) "bac===1" array(2) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" } string(7) "bac===2" array(2) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" } string(7) "bca===1" array(3) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" } string(7) "bca===2" array(3) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" } string(7) "cba===0" array(4) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" [3]=> string(3) "bca" } string(7) "cba===1" array(4) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" [3]=> string(3) "bca" } string(7) "cba===2" array(4) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" [3]=> string(3) "bca" } string(7) "cab===1" array(5) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" [3]=> string(3) "bca" [4]=> string(3) "cba" } string(7) "cab===2" array(5) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" [3]=> string(3) "bca" [4]=> string(3) "cba" } array(6) { [0]=> string(3) "abc" [1]=> string(3) "acb" [2]=> string(3) "bac" [3]=> string(3) "bca" [4]=> string(3) "cba" [5]=> string(3) "cab" }