[erlang-questions] omaha poker hand permutations

[Joel Reymont]

The problem can be reduced to the following:

5> L3 = ["AD", "AH", "AS", "QS"].
["AD","AH","AS","QS"]

6> L4 = [ {A, B} || A <- L3, B <- L3, A /= B].                            
[{"AD","AH"},
 {"AD","AS"},
 {"AD","QS"},
 {"AH","AD"},
 {"AH","AS"},
 {"AH","QS"},
 {"AS","AD"},
 {"AS","AH"},
 {"AS","QS"},
 {"QS","AD"},
 {"QS","AH"},
 {"QS","AS"}]

Note the duplicate pairs of AD, AH and AH, AD.

Can these be eliminated inside the list comprehension itself?

	Thanks, Joel

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