How to find all the permutation of the string by backtracking using C#?

Csharp Server Side Programming Programming

Find the character in the first position and swap the rest of the character with the first character. Like in ABC, in the first iteration three strings are formed: ABC, BAC, and CBA by swapping A with A, B and C respectively. Repeat step for the rest of the characters like fixing second character B and so on. Now swap again to go back to the previous position. from ABC, we formed ABC by fixing B again, and we backtrack to the previous position and swap B with C. So, now we got ABC and ACB.

Example

Live Demo

using System;
namespace ConsoleApplication{
   public class BackTracking{
      public void StringPermutation(string word, int start, int end){
         if (start == end){
            Console.WriteLine(word);
         }
         else{
            for (int i = start; i <= end; i++){
               Swap(ref word, start, i);
               StringPermutation(word, start + 1, end);
               Swap(ref word, start, i);
            }
         }
      }
      private void Swap(ref string word, int start, int end){
         char[] arr = word.ToCharArray();
         char temp = arr[start];
         arr[start] = arr[end];
         arr[end] = temp;
         word = new string(arr);
      }
   }
   class Program{
      static void Main(string[] args){
         BackTracking b = new BackTracking();
         b.StringPermutation("ABC", 0, 2);
      }
   }
}

Output

ABC
ACB
BAC
BCA
CBA
CAB

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 27-Aug-2021 13:15:22

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