我想写一个函数,它以一个字母数组作为参数,并从中选择一些字母。
假设您提供了一个包含8个字母的数组,并希望从中选择3个字母。那么你应该得到:
8! / ((8 - 3)! * 3!) = 56
数组(或单词),每个数组由3个字母组成。
我想写一个函数,它以一个字母数组作为参数,并从中选择一些字母。
假设您提供了一个包含8个字母的数组,并希望从中选择3个字母。那么你应该得到:
8! / ((8 - 3)! * 3!) = 56
数组(或单词),每个数组由3个字母组成。
当前回答
现在又出现了祖辈COBOL,一种饱受诟病的语言。
让我们假设一个包含34个元素的数组,每个元素8个字节(完全是任意选择)。其思想是枚举所有可能的4元素组合,并将它们加载到一个数组中。
我们使用4个指标,每个指标代表4个组中的每个位置
数组是这样处理的:
idx1 = 1
idx2 = 2
idx3 = 3
idx4 = 4
我们把idx4从4变到最后。对于每个idx4,我们得到一个唯一的组合 四人一组。当idx4到达数组的末尾时,我们将idx3增加1,并将idx4设置为idx3+1。然后再次运行idx4到最后。我们以这种方式继续,分别增加idx3、idx2和idx1,直到idx1的位置距离数组末端小于4。算法就完成了。
1 --- pos.1
2 --- pos 2
3 --- pos 3
4 --- pos 4
5
6
7
etc.
第一次迭代:
1234
1235
1236
1237
1245
1246
1247
1256
1257
1267
etc.
一个COBOL的例子:
01 DATA_ARAY.
05 FILLER PIC X(8) VALUE "VALUE_01".
05 FILLER PIC X(8) VALUE "VALUE_02".
etc.
01 ARAY_DATA OCCURS 34.
05 ARAY_ITEM PIC X(8).
01 OUTPUT_ARAY OCCURS 50000 PIC X(32).
01 MAX_NUM PIC 99 COMP VALUE 34.
01 INDEXXES COMP.
05 IDX1 PIC 99.
05 IDX2 PIC 99.
05 IDX3 PIC 99.
05 IDX4 PIC 99.
05 OUT_IDX PIC 9(9).
01 WHERE_TO_STOP_SEARCH PIC 99 COMP.
* Stop the search when IDX1 is on the third last array element:
COMPUTE WHERE_TO_STOP_SEARCH = MAX_VALUE - 3
MOVE 1 TO IDX1
PERFORM UNTIL IDX1 > WHERE_TO_STOP_SEARCH
COMPUTE IDX2 = IDX1 + 1
PERFORM UNTIL IDX2 > MAX_NUM
COMPUTE IDX3 = IDX2 + 1
PERFORM UNTIL IDX3 > MAX_NUM
COMPUTE IDX4 = IDX3 + 1
PERFORM UNTIL IDX4 > MAX_NUM
ADD 1 TO OUT_IDX
STRING ARAY_ITEM(IDX1)
ARAY_ITEM(IDX2)
ARAY_ITEM(IDX3)
ARAY_ITEM(IDX4)
INTO OUTPUT_ARAY(OUT_IDX)
ADD 1 TO IDX4
END-PERFORM
ADD 1 TO IDX3
END-PERFORM
ADD 1 TO IDX2
END_PERFORM
ADD 1 TO IDX1
END-PERFORM.
其他回答
像Andrea Ambu一样用Python写的,但不是硬编码来选择三个。
def combinations(list, k):
"""Choose combinations of list, choosing k elements(no repeats)"""
if len(list) < k:
return []
else:
seq = [i for i in range(k)]
while seq:
print [list[index] for index in seq]
seq = get_next_combination(len(list), k, seq)
def get_next_combination(num_elements, k, seq):
index_to_move = find_index_to_move(num_elements, seq)
if index_to_move == None:
return None
else:
seq[index_to_move] += 1
#for every element past this sequence, move it down
for i, elem in enumerate(seq[(index_to_move+1):]):
seq[i + 1 + index_to_move] = seq[index_to_move] + i + 1
return seq
def find_index_to_move(num_elements, seq):
"""Tells which index should be moved"""
for rev_index, elem in enumerate(reversed(seq)):
if elem < (num_elements - rev_index - 1):
return len(seq) - rev_index - 1
return None
在Python中,利用递归的优势和所有事情都是通过引用完成的事实。对于非常大的集合,这将占用大量内存,但其优点是初始集合可以是一个复杂的对象。它只会找到唯一的组合。
import copy
def find_combinations( length, set, combinations = None, candidate = None ):
# recursive function to calculate all unique combinations of unique values
# from [set], given combinations of [length]. The result is populated
# into the 'combinations' list.
#
if combinations == None:
combinations = []
if candidate == None:
candidate = []
for item in set:
if item in candidate:
# this item already appears in the current combination somewhere.
# skip it
continue
attempt = copy.deepcopy(candidate)
attempt.append(item)
# sorting the subset is what gives us completely unique combinations,
# so that [1, 2, 3] and [1, 3, 2] will be treated as equals
attempt.sort()
if len(attempt) < length:
# the current attempt at finding a new combination is still too
# short, so add another item to the end of the set
# yay recursion!
find_combinations( length, set, combinations, attempt )
else:
# the current combination attempt is the right length. If it
# already appears in the list of found combinations then we'll
# skip it.
if attempt in combinations:
continue
else:
# otherwise, we append it to the list of found combinations
# and move on.
combinations.append(attempt)
continue
return len(combinations)
你可以这样使用它。传递'result'是可选的,所以你可以用它来获取可能组合的数量…尽管这样做效率很低(最好通过计算来完成)。
size = 3
set = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
result = []
num = find_combinations( size, set, result )
print "size %d results in %d sets" % (size, num)
print "result: %s" % (result,)
您应该从测试数据中得到以下输出:
size 3 results in 10 sets
result: [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 4], [1, 2, 5], [1, 3, 4], [1, 3, 5], [1, 4, 5], [2, 3, 4], [2, 3, 5], [2, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5]]
如果你的集合是这样的,它也会工作得很好:
set = [
[ 'vanilla', 'cupcake' ],
[ 'chocolate', 'pudding' ],
[ 'vanilla', 'pudding' ],
[ 'chocolate', 'cookie' ],
[ 'mint', 'cookie' ]
]
由于没有提到编程语言,我假设列表也是可以的。下面是一个OCaml版本,适用于短列表(非尾递归)。给定一个包含任意类型元素的列表l和一个整数n,如果我们假设结果列表中元素的顺序被忽略,它将返回一个包含l的n个元素的所有可能列表的列表,即list ['a';'b']与['b';'a']相同,并且将报告一次。因此,结果列表的大小将是((list。长度l)选择n)。
递归的直观原理如下:取列表的头,然后进行两次递归调用:
递归调用1 (RC1):到列表的尾部,但选择n-1个元素 递归调用2 (RC2):到列表的尾部,但选择n个元素
要组合递归结果,list-乘(请使用奇数名称)列表的头部与RC1的结果,然后附加(@)RC2的结果。List-multiply是如下操作lmul:
a lmul [ l1 ; l2 ; l3] = [a::l1 ; a::l2 ; a::l3]
Lmul在下面的代码中实现
List.map (fun x -> h::x)
当列表的大小等于您想要选择的元素数量时,递归将终止,在这种情况下,您只需返回列表本身。
下面是OCaml中实现上述算法的四行代码:
let rec choose l n = match l, (List.length l) with
| _, lsize when n==lsize -> [l]
| h::t, _ -> (List.map (fun x-> h::x) (choose t (n-1))) @ (choose t n)
| [], _ -> []
一个简洁的Javascript解决方案:
Array.prototype.combine=function combine(k){
var toCombine=this;
var last;
function combi(n,comb){
var combs=[];
for ( var x=0,y=comb.length;x<y;x++){
for ( var l=0,m=toCombine.length;l<m;l++){
combs.push(comb[x]+toCombine[l]);
}
}
if (n<k-1){
n++;
combi(n,combs);
} else{last=combs;}
}
combi(1,toCombine);
return last;
}
// Example:
// var toCombine=['a','b','c'];
// var results=toCombine.combine(4);
Clojure版本:
(defn comb [k l]
(if (= 1 k) (map vector l)
(apply concat
(map-indexed
#(map (fn [x] (conj x %2))
(comb (dec k) (drop (inc %1) l)))
l))))