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C/C++ Program for Print all possible combinations of r elements in a given array of size n.

program solution

// Program to print all combination of size r in an array of size n 
#include <stdio.h> 
void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end, int index, int r); 

 

// The main function that prints all combinations of size r in arr[] of size n. This function mainly uses combinationUtil() 
void printCombination(int arr[], int n, int r) 

    // A temporary array to store all combination one by one int data[r]; 

    // Print all combination using temprary array 'data[]' 
    combinationUtil(arr, data, 0, n-1, 0, r); 

/* arr[] ---> Input Array 
data[] ---> Temporary array to store current combination 
start & end ---> Staring and Ending indexes in arr[] 
index ---> Current index in data[] 
r ---> Size of a combination to be printed */

void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end, int index, int r) 

    // Current combination is ready to be printed, print it 
    if (index == r) 
    { 
        for (int j=0; j<r; j++) 
            printf("%d ", data[j]); 
        printf("\n"); 
        return; 
    } 

    // replace index with all possible elements. The condition "end-i+1 >= r-index" makes sure that including one element at index will make a combination with remaining elements at remaining positions 
    for (int i=start; i<=end && end-i+1 >= r-index; i++) 
    { 
        data[index] = arr[i]; 
        combinationUtil(arr, data, i+1, end, index+1, r); 
    } 

// Driver program to test above functions 
int main() 

    int arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; 
    int r = 3; 
    int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]); 
    printCombination(arr, n, r); 

 

Output

1 2 3

1 2 4

1 2 5

1 3 4

1 3 5

1 4 5

2 3 4

2 3 5

2 4 5

3 4 5 

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