Anyone wanna help me on the logic or whatever of a program that forms every letter combination in a 5 letter name? And then maybe a 6 letter name with the first letter being from A to E? If not, I understand. It makes me sick to try. But ya. Thanx in advance.

You can also do it generally with a recursive function!

Thanx, it was faster, for me at least, to do in java because I wanted to output to file. The whole first name file was 464 megs. I run out of far memory trying to open the damn thing. But thanx for your help.

Heeehehehe.... has annyone else read that Isaac Asimov (or it could be arthur c. clarke... I don't remember) story, the 9 billion names of god? All these monks are like using a computer to print out every possible name with up to 7 letters, and pasting them into their holy books. Then they get every comination, and the universe ends... it's pretty cool. Just reminded me of this.

Ya, well you know, the universe is tied directly to my motherboard, I hardwired it right there in place of the cmos battery.

Really, well I managed to fit a blackhole into one of my PCI Slots, but unfortunately, there's a 33mhz bottleneck on the throughtput :-(

eternaldisciple: for the letter printing you could use the ascii number equivalents of the letters for an easier approach, kinda like... (this is probably faster, less comparing is required)

psuedo-logic code:
start the loop at the ascii equivalent of a and have it go up to the equivalent of z, they are consecutive (no way...)

so lets say you have a char hold the number 100 (pretend that's the ascii equivalent of b), then you go...

printf("%c", the_char_that_holds_the_number);
and then you...
++the_char_that_holds_the_number;

It works because as far as i know, you can increment a char.

...and I don't actually use those kinda names for variables... :p

ya, well, I liked java's easy type-conversion. I just used the for loops and the ascii value, then converted it to char.

for(letter1=65; letter1<66; letter1++)
{
for(letter2=65; letter2<91; letter2++)
{
for(letter3=65; letter3<91; letter3++)
{
for(letter4=65; letter4<91; letter4++)
{
for(letter5=65; letter5<91; letter5++)
{
for(letter6=65; letter6<91; letter6++)
{
out.write( (char)letter1 );
out.write( (char)letter2 );
out.write( (char)letter3 );
out.write( (char)letter4 );
out.write( (char)letter5 );
out.write( (char)letter6 );
out.write( ' ' );
namecount++;
}
}
}
}
}
}
out.write( "Count", 0, 5);
out.newLine();
out.write( namecount );

But that's me.

And is anyone surprised that you wasted your time and our bandwidth?

eternal, that is a silly way to do it. You should have done for (char letter1 = 'A'; letter1 <= 'D'; ++letter1) /* more stuff lala */ out.write(letter1) /* hoho */, and saved some typing.

i think they're playing a competition to see who can fit the most pointless amount of code into 1 post