I didn't know anything about the brute force algorithm when answering this question, so I approached it from another angle. I decided to search the entire range of possible solutions that this number could possibly be rearranged into, starting from the number_given+1 up to the max number available (999 for a 3 digit number, 9999 for 4 digits, etc.). I did this kind of like finding a palindrome with words, by sorting the numbers of each solution and comparing it to the sorted number given as the parameter. I then simply returned the first solution in the array of solutions, as this would be the next possible value.

下面是我的Ruby代码:

def PermutationStep(num)

    a = []
    (num.to_s.length).times { a.push("9") }
    max_num = a.join('').to_i
    verify = num.to_s.split('').sort
    matches = ((num+1)..max_num).select {|n| n.to_s.split('').sort == verify }

    if matches.length < 1
      return -1
    else
      matches[0]
    end
end

如果你用c++编程，你可以使用next_permutation:

#include <algorithm>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  using namespace std; 
   string x;
   while (cin >> x) {
    cout << x << " -> ";
    next_permutation(x.begin(),x.end());
    cout << x << "\n";
  }
  return 0;
}

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
  int num=15432;
  int quot,rem;
  int numarr[5];
  int length=0;
  while(num!=0)
  {
      rem=num%10;
      num = num/10;
      numarr[length]=rem;
      length++;
  }

 for(int j=0;j<length;j++)
  {
  for(int i=0;i<length;i++)
  {
      if(numarr[i]<numarr[i+1])
      {
          int tmp=numarr[i];
          numarr[i]=numarr[i+1];
          numarr[i+1]=tmp;
      }
  }
  }

  for(int j=0;j<length;j++)
  {
   cout<<numarr[j];
  }
  return 0;
}

在Java中，这个算法比这个算法更简洁

   public static int permutate2(int number){
        String[] numArray = String.valueOf(number).split("");

        for(int i = numArray.length - 1; i > 0; i--){
            int current = Integer.valueOf(numArray[i]);
            int previous = Integer.valueOf(numArray[i - 1]);

            if(previous < current){
                String[] rest = String.valueOf(number).substring(i, numArray.length).split("");
                Arrays.sort(rest);

                String picker = rest[0];
                int pickerIndex = 0;
                for(int n = 0; n < rest.length ; n++){
                    if(Integer.valueOf(rest[n]) > previous){
                        picker = rest[n];
                        pickerIndex = n;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                numArray[i - 1] = picker;
                rest[pickerIndex] = String.valueOf(previous);
                Arrays.sort(rest);

                String newNumber = "";
                for(int z = 0; z <= i - 1; z++){
                    newNumber += numArray[z];
                }
                for(String z : rest){
                    newNumber += z;
                }

                return Integer.valueOf(newNumber);
            }
        }

        return number;
   }

这是我在Ruby中的实现:

def foo num  
  num = num.to_s.chars.map(&:to_i)
  return num.join.to_i if num.size < 2
  for left in (num.size-2).downto(0) do
    for right in (num.size-1).downto(left+1) do
      if num[right]>num[left]
        num[left],num[right] = num[right],num[left]        
        return (num[0..left] + num[left+1..num.size-1].sort).join.to_i
      end
    end
  end
  return num.join.to_i
end

p foo 38276 
#will print: 38627

至少，这里有几个基于字符串的暴力解决方案的例子，你应该能够马上想到:

38276中的数字排序为23678

38627排序的数字列表是23678

蛮力增量，排序和比较

沿着蛮力解决方案将转换为字符串 然后用这些数字强行找出所有可能的数字。

从它们中创建int，把它们放在一个列表中并排序， 获取目标条目之后的下一个条目。

如果你花了30分钟在这个问题上，却没有想出一个蛮力的方法，我也不会雇用你。

在商业世界中，一个不优雅、缓慢和笨拙但能完成工作的解决方案总是比没有解决方案更有价值，事实上，这几乎描述了所有不优雅、缓慢和笨拙的商业软件。