259. Print all sub sequences of a given String

Objective: Given a String write an algorithm to print all the possible sub-subsequences.

Example:

String input = “abc”;

Output: Possible sub sequences –
{Empty}, {a}, {b}, {c}, {ab} ,{a,c}, {b, c}, {a, b, c}

Approach:

The approach will be similar to as discussed here Generate All Strings of n bits.
If we consider n= 3(same as the string length) then all possible combinations are [0, 0, 0] [1, 0, 0] [0, 1, 0] [1, 1, 0] [0, 0, 1] [1, 0, 1] [0, 1, 1] [1, 1, 1].
So from the above combinations, wherever the bit is set to 1, place a string character from the index (same as position) at the position, and wherever the bit is set to 0, ignore the string character at the index.
The above step will give the desired result.
See the code below for better understanding.

Time Complexity: O(2^n)

Output:

a b c
a b
a c
a
b c
b
c
{Empty Set}