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The example program below prints all subsets of the set {0,1,2,3} ordered by size. Subsets of the same size are ordered lexicographically.
#include <stdio.h> #include <gsl/gsl_combination.h> int main (void) { gsl_combination * c; size_t i; printf ("All subsets of {0,1,2,3} by size:\n") ; for (i = 0; i <= 4; i++) { c = gsl_combination_calloc (4, i); do { printf ("{"); gsl_combination_fprintf (stdout, c, " %u"); printf (" }\n"); } while (gsl_combination_next (c) == GSL_SUCCESS); gsl_combination_free (c); } return 0; }
Here is the output from the program,
$ ./a.out
All subsets of {0,1,2,3} by size: { } { 0 } { 1 } { 2 } { 3 } { 0 1 } { 0 2 } { 0 3 } { 1 2 } { 1 3 } { 2 3 } { 0 1 2 } { 0 1 3 } { 0 2 3 } { 1 2 3 } { 0 1 2 3 }
All 16 subsets are generated, and the subsets of each size are sorted lexicographically.