[headbirth]

Hi, I'm looking for a quick way to take a word and have the computer take the letters and show all possible combinations...

[Krusty]

Originally posted by headbirth:
Hi, I'm looking for a quick way to take a word and have the computer take the letters and show all possible combinations...

Well, all possible combinations would be n! (n factorial where n is the number of letters in the word). The total number of combinations would be ENORMOUS on a longer word. Just listing all possible combinations for a 10 letter word would be 604800 .. for 9 60480, and 6720 for and 8 letter word. Hardly something that you'd want to manually search through.

Do you mean all possible combinations where you use each letter (meaning if you have a 5 letter word, you want only 5 letter combinations .. using each letter every time) ?

Gimme a hint exactly what you need and I can probably whip together a program for you quickly.

[Mithras]

Do you mean this?
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/

[headbirth]

Thanks for the input guys! Got a little side tracked and forgot about this thread.

Thanks for the offer Krusty, but I think anagrams is what I was after :-)