Need Help with - C Code to print Combinations in PICK 3 Game

Reply #2

thamizhpayan — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:21:33 GMT

Hi,

This might be overkill for what you asked for.

You can take this code and use the logic and port to C in-case you want in C. Or you can switch to Java.

Save as file PrintPick3Combos.java

Compile and Run the Java class.

package org.home.lottery.pick3;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.TreeSet;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class PrintPick3Combos {

private s... [ More ]

Reply #1

thamizhpayan — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:01:51 GMT

Hi,

Instead of recursion, you can try iterating the array thrice and filter out the ones you don't need by just checking whether 2 digits are repeating - double and 3 are same -triple). Also you can tweak it further to get boxes and straights based on sorting 3 columns. Then you can print out the values.

I suggest this because it's just pick-3 and pick-4 where the loop goes to a max of 1000 or 10000 which is quick.

If it is like PB/MM, the code has to be tweaked for perfo... [ More ]

Need Help with - C Code to print Combinations in PICK 3 Game

DrDavidBowman — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:54:17 GMT

Below is the C Code to print the Combinations of numbers from an Array for a PICK 3 Game

The Code only does Singles ...

Can some kind soul please modify the code so that it also outputs Doubles ???

Thank you and regards

// Program to print all combination of size r in an array of size n

#include stdio.h

void printCombination(int arr[], int n, int r)

{

int data[r];

combinationUtil(arr, data, 0, n-1, 0, r);

}

void combinationUtil(int arr[], int da... [ More ]