How to get all subsets of an array?

Question

Given an array: [dog, cat, mouse]

what is the most elegant way to create:

[,,]
[,,mouse]
[,cat,]
[,cat,mouse]
[dog,,]
[dog,,mouse]
[dog,         


        

Answer 1

Guffa's answer had the basic functionality that I was searching, however the line with

BitArray b = new BitArray(i);

did not work for me, it gave an ArgumentOutOfRangeException. Here's my slightly adjusted and working code:

string[] array = { "A", "B", "C","D" };
int count = 1 << array.Length; // 2^n

for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
    string[] items = new string[array.Length];
    BitArray b = new BitArray(BitConverter.GetBytes(i));
    for (int bit = 0; bit < array.Length; bit++) {
        items[bit] = b[bit] ? array[bit] : "";
    }
    Console.WriteLine(String.Join("",items));
}