I am trying to combine items in an array, with every item below it. It should make a set of the current character and each character below it, and iteratively walk down the array. For example, if I have an array like this:
var myArray = ['A','B','C','D']
I would like an output like this:
AB AC AD BC BD CD
The code I have is getting me close, but I am having a hard time figuring out the rest. Here is what I have so far:
var myArray = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']
var sql_parts = []
var string = "";
for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
recurse_function(string, i)
}
console.log(sql_parts)
function recurse_function(string_val, count) {
if ((myArray.length - count) == 0) {
return string_val;
} else {
string_val += myArray[count]
sql_parts.push(string_val)
recurse_function(string_val, count + 1)
}
}But this produces:
["A", "AB", "ABC", "ABCD", "B", "BC", "BCD", "C", "CD", "D"]
I don't think you need to recurse in this particular case. You can simply combine the current element with the following ones with flatMap:
['A','B','C','D'].flatMap((x, i, xs) => xs.slice(i+1).map(y => x+y));
//=> ["AB", "AC", "AD", "BC", "BD", "CD"]
Here is one solution:
function recurse_function(array, combinations = []) {
if(array.length <= 1) return combinations;
const start = array.shift();
for(let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) combinations.push(`${start}${array[i]}`);
return recurse_function(array, combinations);
}
console.log( recurse_function(['A','B','C','D']) );var myArray = ['A','B','C','D']
var sql_parts = []
for(var i =0; i< myArray.length; i++){
var a = myArray[i]
for(var j = i+1; j<myArray.length; j++){
var b=myArray[j]
var c= a+b
sql_parts.push(c)
}
}