Macro To Create Sheet with Consecutive Letter Strings

Toby123

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  1. 365
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  1. MacOS
Hello!

I am looking for a sheet with consecutive 6 letter strings, using all the letters of the alphabet except a, e, i, o, u, x and z. It would start with bbbbbb, bbbbbc, bbbbbd, then when it reaches bbbbbz jump to bbbbcb, bbbbcc, bbbbcd etc. It should end at yyyyyy. This should give 47,045,881 (19^6) combinations by my reckoning. If it is easier we could run it with all the letters then search and remove the cells containing the unwanted letters afterwards. I presume a macro would be the best way of doing this. Thank you in advance!
 
How about
VBA Code:
Sub Toby()
   Dim Ary(1 To 50000, 1 To 1) As Variant, Lts As Variant
   Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, l As Long, m As Long, n As Long
   Dim nr As Long, nc As Long
 
   Lts = Split("b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,q,r,s,t,v,w,y", ",")
   nc = 1
   Application.ScreenUpdating = False
   For i = 0 To 18
      For j = 0 To 18
         For k = 0 To 18
            For l = 0 To 18
               For m = 0 To 18
                  For n = 0 To 18
                     nr = nr + 1
                     Ary(nr, 1) = Lts(i) & Lts(j) & Lts(k) & Lts(l) & Lts(m) & Lts(n)
                     If nr = 50000 Then
                        Cells(1, nc).Resize(50000).Value = Ary
                        nc = nc + 1
                        nr = 0
                     End If
                  Next n
               Next m
            Next l
         Next k
      Next j
   Next i
   Cells(1, nc).Resize(nr).Value = Ary
End Sub
It worked like a dream, completed in about 8 minutes, thank you so much!
 
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