Permutation of String letters: How to remove repeated permutations?

Question

Here is a standard function to print the permutations of characters of a string:

void permute(char *a, int i, int n)
{
   int j;
   if (i == n)
     printf(\         


        

Answer 1

Do not permute for same character at different position of the string.

In Python:

def unique_permutation(a, l, r):
    if l == r:
        print ''.join(a)
        return
    for i in range(l, r+1):
        if i != l and a[i] == a[l]:
            continue
        a[i], a[l] = a[l], a[i]
        unique_permutation(a, l+1, r)
        a[i], a[l] = a[l], a[i]