i cant understand how permute function works.Every time i lost to find what actually permute function do and why it's called backtracking????
void swap (char *x, char *y)
{
char temp;
temp = *x;
*x = *y;
*y = temp;
}
void permute(char *a, int i, int n)
{
int j;
if (i == n)
printf("%s\n", a);
else
{
for (j = i; j <= n; j++)
{
swap((a+i), (a+j));
permute(a, i+1, n);
swap((a+i), (a+j)); //backtrack
}
}
}