Generate all strings under length N in C

Question

I tried coding this myself and horribly failed. This is basically what I want:

a
b
...
z
aa
ba
...
za
ab
bb
...
zz
aaa
baa
...
zzz

In the e

Answer 1

Looks like you want it in C, here is a way to do it:

#include 
#include 

int inc(char *c){
    if(c[0]==0) return 0;
    if(c[0]=='z'){
        c[0]='a';
        return inc(c+sizeof(char));
    }   
    c[0]++;
    return 1;
}

int main(void){
    int n = 3;
    int i,j;
    char *c = malloc((n+1)*sizeof(char));
    for(i=1;i<=n;i++){
        for(j=0;j