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

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。

其他回答

斯威夫特5.1

public extension Array where Element: Collection {

    func flatten() -> [Element.Element] {
        return reduce([], +)
    }
}

如果你也想在Dictionary值中使用它:

public extension Dictionary.Values where Value : Collection {
    func flatten() -> [Value.Element]{
         return self.reduce([], +)
    }
}

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())

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。

斯威夫特4.2

我在下面写了一个简单的数组扩展。可用于将包含另一个数组或元素的数组平展。不像joined()方法。

public extension Array {
    public func flatten() -> [Element] {
        return Array.flatten(0, self)
    }

    public static func flatten<Element>(_ index: Int, _ toFlat: [Element]) -> [Element] {
        guard index < toFlat.count else { return [] }

        var flatten: [Element] = []

        if let itemArr = toFlat[index] as? [Element] {
            flatten = flatten + itemArr.flatten()
        } else {
            flatten.append(toFlat[index])
        }

        return flatten + Array.flatten(index + 1, toFlat)
    }
}

用法:

let numbers: [Any] = [1, [2, "3"], 4, ["5", 6, 7], "8", [9, 10]]

numbers.flatten()

Apple Swift 5.1.2版本(swiflang -1100.0.278) 目标:x86_64-apple-darwin19.2.0

let optionalNumbers = [[1, 2, 3, nil], nil, [4], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]]
print(optionalNumbers.compactMap { $0 }) // [[Optional(1), Optional(2), Optional(3), nil], [Optional(4)], [Optional(5), Optional(6), Optional(7), Optional(8), Optional(9)]]
print(optionalNumbers.compactMap { $0 }.reduce([], +).map { $0 as? Int ?? nil }.compactMap{ $0 }) // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
print(optionalNumbers.compactMap { $0 }.flatMap { $0 }.map { $0 as? Int ?? nil }.compactMap{ $0 }) // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
print(Array(optionalNumbers.compactMap { $0 }.joined()).map { $0 as? Int ?? nil }.compactMap{ $0 }) // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

let nonOptionalNumbers = [[1, 2, 3], [4], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]]
print(nonOptionalNumbers.compactMap { $0 }) // [[1, 2, 3], [4], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]]
print(nonOptionalNumbers.reduce([], +)) // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
print(nonOptionalNumbers.flatMap { $0 }) // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
print(Array(nonOptionalNumbers.joined())) // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]