赶时髦，发布另一个解决方案。这是一个通用的Java实现。输入:(int k)是要选择的元素数量，(List<T> List)是要选择的列表。返回一个组合列表(list < list <T>>)。

public static <T> List<List<T>> getCombinations(int k, List<T> list) {
    List<List<T>> combinations = new ArrayList<List<T>>();
    if (k == 0) {
        combinations.add(new ArrayList<T>());
        return combinations;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
        T element = list.get(i);
        List<T> rest = getSublist(list, i+1);
        for (List<T> previous : getCombinations(k-1, rest)) {
            previous.add(element);
            combinations.add(previous);
        }
    }
    return combinations;
}

public static <T> List<T> getSublist(List<T> list, int i) {
    List<T> sublist = new ArrayList<T>();
    for (int j = i; j < list.size(); j++) {
        sublist.add(list.get(j));
    }
    return sublist;
}

这是一个c++解决方案，我提出使用递归和位移位。它也可以在C语言中工作。

void r_nCr(unsigned int startNum, unsigned int bitVal, unsigned int testNum) // Should be called with arguments (2^r)-1, 2^(r-1), 2^(n-1)
{
    unsigned int n = (startNum - bitVal) << 1;
    n += bitVal ? 1 : 0;

    for (unsigned int i = log2(testNum) + 1; i > 0; i--) // Prints combination as a series of 1s and 0s
        cout << (n >> (i - 1) & 1);
    cout << endl;

    if (!(n & testNum) && n != startNum)
        r_nCr(n, bitVal, testNum);

    if (bitVal && bitVal < testNum)
        r_nCr(startNum, bitVal >> 1, testNum);
}

你可以在这里找到这是如何工作的解释。

《计算机编程艺术，卷4A:组合算法，第1部分》第7.2.1.3节中算法L(字典组合)的C代码:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void visit(int* c, int t) 
{
  // for (int j = 1; j <= t; j++)
  for (int j = t; j > 0; j--)
    printf("%d ", c[j]);
  printf("\n");
}

int* initialize(int n, int t) 
{
  // c[0] not used
  int *c = (int*) malloc((t + 3) * sizeof(int));

  for (int j = 1; j <= t; j++)
    c[j] = j - 1;
  c[t+1] = n;
  c[t+2] = 0;
  return c;
}

void comb(int n, int t) 
{
  int *c = initialize(n, t);
  int j;

  for (;;) {
    visit(c, t);
    j = 1;
    while (c[j]+1 == c[j+1]) {
      c[j] = j - 1;
      ++j;
    }
    if (j > t) 
      return;
    ++c[j];
  }
  free(c);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  comb(5, 3);
  return 0;
}

另一种python递归解决方案。

def combination_indicies(n, k, j = 0, stack = []):   
    if len(stack) == k:            
        yield list(stack)
        return
        
    for i in range(j, n):
        stack.append(i)
        for x in combination_indicies(n, k, i + 1, stack):            
            yield x
        stack.pop()  
        
list(combination_indicies(5, 3))

输出:

[[0, 1, 2],
 [0, 1, 3],
 [0, 1, 4],
 [0, 2, 3],
 [0, 2, 4],
 [0, 3, 4],
 [1, 2, 3],
 [1, 2, 4],
 [1, 3, 4],
 [2, 3, 4]]

为此，我在SQL Server 2005中创建了一个解决方案，并将其发布在我的网站上:http://www.jessemclain.com/downloads/code/sql/fn_GetMChooseNCombos.sql.htm

下面是一个例子来说明用法:

SELECT * FROM dbo.fn_GetMChooseNCombos('ABCD', 2, '')

结果:

Word
----
AB
AC
AD
BC
BD
CD

(6 row(s) affected)

我的实现在c/c++

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iconv.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int opt = -1, min_len = 0, max_len = 0;
    char ofile[256], fchar[2], tchar[2];
    ofile[0] = 0;
    fchar[0] = 0;
    tchar[0] = 0;
    while((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "o:f:t:l:L:")) != -1)
    {
            switch(opt)
            {
                    case 'o':
                    strncpy(ofile, optarg, 255);
                    break;
                    case 'f':
                    strncpy(fchar, optarg, 1);
                    break;
                    case 't':
                    strncpy(tchar, optarg, 1);
                    break;
                    case 'l':
                    min_len = atoi(optarg);
                    break;
                    case 'L':
                    max_len = atoi(optarg);
                    break;
                    default:
                    printf("usage: %s -oftlL\n\t-o output file\n\t-f from char\n\t-t to char\n\t-l min seq len\n\t-L max seq len", argv[0]);
            }
    }
if(max_len < 1)
{
    printf("error, length must be more than 0\n");
    return 1;
}
if(min_len > max_len)
{
    printf("error, max length must be greater or equal min_length\n");
    return 1;
}
if((int)fchar[0] > (int)tchar[0])
{
    printf("error, invalid range specified\n");
    return 1;
}
FILE *out = fopen(ofile, "w");
if(!out)
{
    printf("failed to open input file with error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
    return 1;
}
int cur_len = min_len;
while(cur_len <= max_len)
{
    char buf[cur_len];
    for(int i = 0; i < cur_len; i++)
        buf[i] = fchar[0];
    fwrite(buf, cur_len, 1, out);
    fwrite("\n", 1, 1, out);
    while(buf[0] != (tchar[0]+1))
    {
        while(buf[cur_len-1] < tchar[0])
        {
            (int)buf[cur_len-1]++;
            fwrite(buf, cur_len, 1, out);
            fwrite("\n", 1, 1, out);
        }
        if(cur_len < 2)
            break;
        if(buf[0] == tchar[0])
        {
            bool stop = true;
            for(int i = 1; i < cur_len; i++)
            {
                if(buf[i] != tchar[0])
                {
                    stop = false;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if(stop)
                break;
        }
        int u = cur_len-2;
        for(; u>=0 && buf[u] >= tchar[0]; u--)
            ;
        (int)buf[u]++;
        for(int i = u+1; i < cur_len; i++)
            buf[i] = fchar[0];
        fwrite(buf, cur_len, 1, out);
        fwrite("\n", 1, 1, out);
    }
    cur_len++;
}
fclose(out);
return 0;
}

这里我的实现在c++，它写所有的组合到指定的文件，但行为可以改变，我在生成各种字典，它接受最小和最大长度和字符范围，目前只有ANSI支持，它足以满足我的需求