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Generates combinations of a set

A combination is a set of size k from a number of values > k that does not repeat.

For example, given the values Jim, Jane, Bob, Susan, Ralph, all the possible combinations of size 3 are as follows:

Jim, Jane, Bob
Jim, Jane, Susan
Jim, Jane, Ralph
Jim, Bob, Susan
Jim, Bob, Ralph
Jim, Susan, Ralph
Jane, Bob, Susan
Jane, Bob, Ralph
Jane, Susan, Ralph
Bob, Susan, Ralph

(credit to this awesome calculator for the example).

Installation

composer require kieranajp/combinator

Usage

The provided Combinator class is an instance of Iterator, so combinations can be collected by looping over it.

For example:

use Kieranajp\Combinator\Combinator;

$size = 3;
$combinator = new Combinator([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], $size);

$items = [];
foreach ($c as $item) {
    $items[] = $item;
}

The $items array will now contain all possible combinations of size $size.

Contributing & Roadmap

Pull requests are welcome. Please adhere to PSR-2. I intend to add a Permutator to this package, as well.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Kieran Patel

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