在Swift中有没有对应的Scala、Xtend、Groovy、Ruby等等?

var aofa = [[1,2,3],[4],[5,6,7,8,9]]
aofa.flatten() // shall deliver [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] 

当然我可以用reduce来做,但那有点糟糕

var flattened = aofa.reduce(Int[]()){
    a,i in var b : Int[] = a
    b.extend(i)
    return b
}

当前回答

你可以用下面的方法来平嵌套数组:

var arrays = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, [12, 22, 32], [[1, 2, 3], 1, 3, 4, [[[777, 888, 8999]]]]] as [Any]

func flatten(_ array: [Any]) -> [Any] {

    return array.reduce([Any]()) { result, current in
        switch current {
        case(let arrayOfAny as [Any]):
            return result + flatten(arrayOfAny)
        default:
            return result + [current]
        }
    }
}

let result = flatten(arrays)

print(result)

/// [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 22, 32, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 4, 777, 888, 8999]

其他回答

reduce的另一个更通用的实现,

let numbers = [[1,2,3],[4],[5,6,7,8,9]]
let reduced = reduce(numbers,[],+)

这完成了同样的事情,但可能会对reduce中发生的事情有更多的了解。

从苹果公司的文件来看,

func reduce<S : SequenceType, U>(sequence: S, initial: U, combine: (U, S.Generator.Element) -> U) -> U

描述

返回反复调用combine的结果,并依次返回初始化为initial的累积值和sequence的每个元素。

编辑:使用joined()代替:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/sequence/2431985-joined

最初的回答:

let numbers = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
let flattenNumbers = numbers.reduce([], combine: +)

快4.倍

flatMap的这种用法并没有被弃用,它就是为此而生的。 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/sequence/2905332-flatmap

var aofa = [[1,2,3],[4],[5,6,7,8,9]]
aofa.flatMap { $0 } //[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] 

Swift >= 3.0

减少:

let numbers = [[1,2,3],[4],[5,6,7,8,9]]
let reduced = numbers.reduce([], +)

flatMap:

let numbers = [[1,2,3],[4],[5,6,7,8,9]]
let flattened = numbers.flatMap { $0 }

加入:

let numbers = [[1,2,3],[4],[5,6,7,8,9]]
let joined = Array(numbers.joined())

在Swift标准库中,为所有符合Sequence协议的类型实现了join函数(或在Swift 3之前在SequenceType上flatten),其中包括Array:

let numbers = [[1,2,3],[4],[5,6,7,8,9]]
let flattened = Array(numbers.joined())

在某些情况下,使用joined()可能是有益的,因为它返回一个惰性集合而不是一个新数组,但当传递给array()初始化器时,总是可以转换为一个数组,就像上面的例子一样。