How to do equivalent of LINQ SelectMany() just in javascript

Question

Unfortunately, I don\'t have JQuery or Underscore, just pure javascript (IE9 compatible).

I\'m wanting the equivalent of SelectMany() from LINQ functionality.

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Answer 1

I would do this (avoiding .concat()):

function SelectMany(array) {
    var flatten = function(arr, e) {
        if (e && e.length)
            return e.reduce(flatten, arr);
        else 
            arr.push(e);
        return arr;
    };

    return array.reduce(flatten, []);
}

var nestedArray = [1,2,[3,4,[5,6,7],8],9,10];
console.log(SelectMany(nestedArray)) //[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

If you don't want to use .reduce():

function SelectMany(array, arr = []) {
    for (let item of array) {
        if (item && item.length)
            arr = SelectMany(item, arr);
        else
            arr.push(item);
    }
    return arr;
}

If you want to use .forEach():

function SelectMany(array, arr = []) {
    array.forEach(e => {
        if (e && e.length)
            arr = SelectMany(e, arr);
        else
            arr.push(e);
    });

    return arr;
}