C function in metaTalk?

[Wouter Abraham]

> Re:C function in metaTalk?
>
>     * From: Dr. John R. Vokey
>     * Subject: Re:C function in metaTalk?
> * Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:06:54 -0800
>
> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 10:03 AM, on [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wouter 
> Abraham wrote:
>
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Something like this? :
>
..... snip
>
> Unfortunately, this function does not return all the different sets of 
> the letters as input. If the input is "abc", for example, it returns:
> a
> ab
> abc
> b
> bc
> c
>
> but misses "bc". The missed sets are even more obvious with "abcd" as 
> input:
>
> a
> ab
> abc
> abcd
> b
> bc
> bcd
> c
> cd
> d
>
>
> In general, there are 2^k-1 possible sets, where k=the number of 
> letters. For 4 letters, there should be 15 sets, not the 10 shown > here.
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Hallo mr J. R. Vokey,

I appologize if I misread the original question :

>     * From: eric . allen . engle
>     * Subject: C function in metaTalk?
> * Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 05:09:52 -0800
>
> I'm trying to translate the following C functions into
> hypertalk.
> If done properly they take as input a string, say ABC
> and then
> permutate it into
> a
> a b
> a b c
> b
> b c
> c
>
> UGLY C***************************************
>

And please elucidate on :

>
> Unfortunately, this function does not return all the different sets of 
> the letters as input. If the input is "abc", for example, it returns:
> a
> ab
> abc
> b
> bc
> c
>
> but misses "bc". The missed sets are even more obvious with "abcd" as 
> input:
>

Have a nice evening,
WA