Lists all possible permutations. :package: :smiley_cat: :running: :vhs: :moon: :scroll: :newspaper: :blue_book:

Similar: permutation, permutations, hasPermutation.

This is part of package extra-array.

This is browserified, minified version of @extra-array/permutations. It is exported as global variable array_permutations. CDN: unpkg, jsDelivr.

array.permutations(x, [n]);
// x: an array
// n: number of values (-1 => any)

const array = require("extra-array");

[...array.permutations([1, 2])];
// [ [], [ 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 1, 2 ], [ 2, 1 ] ]

[...array.permutations([1, 2, 3])];
// [
//   [],          [ 1 ],
//   [ 2 ],       [ 3 ],
//   [ 1, 2 ],    [ 1, 3 ],
//   [ 2, 1 ],    [ 2, 3 ],
//   [ 3, 1 ],    [ 3, 2 ],
//   [ 1, 2, 3 ], [ 1, 3, 2 ],
//   [ 2, 1, 3 ], [ 2, 3, 1 ],
//   [ 3, 1, 2 ], [ 3, 2, 1 ]
// ]

[...array.permutations([1, 2, 3], 2)];
// [ [ 1, 2 ], [ 1, 3 ], [ 2, 1 ], [ 2, 3 ], [ 3, 1 ], [ 3, 2 ] ]

References

• Data.List.permutations: Haskell