Listing all permutations of a string/integer

Question

A common task in programming interviews (not from my experience of interviews though) is to take a string or an integer and list every possible permutation.

Is there

Answer 1

void permute (char *str, int ptr) {
  int i, len;
  len = strlen(str);
  if (ptr == len) {
    printf ("%s\n", str);
    return;
  }

  for (i = ptr ; i < len ; i++) {
    swap (&str[ptr], &str[i]);
    permute (str, ptr + 1);
    swap (&str[ptr], &str[i]);
  }
}

You can write your swap function to swap characters.
This is to be called as permute(string, 0);