Question

I need to generate the combinations of numbers using ruby.
For Example :

arr = [1,2,3,4,5]

The constraint is, the combination number should include the number 5 and the length is minimum 3 or above. (i.e 125, 521, 1245 etc.. ). The above array elements (values 1 to 5) may occur one or two or more times in the combination number.

Answer 1

Try this:

arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
arr = arr * 5
out = []
3.upto(5) do |i|
  arr.combination(i) do |c|
    out << c if c.include? 5
  end
end
out = out.uniq.sort
puts out.inspect

# yields 2531 elements:
# [[1, 1, 1, 1, 5], [1, 1, 1, 2, 5], ... [2, 3, 5], ... [5, 5, 5, 5, 5]]