Intermediate Algorithm Scripting - Steamroller

[maybol283]

Tell us what’s happening:
So I can get as far as flattening most of the array down, however I don’t understand why my reduce function stops before completely flattening the array. because as it goes across the array, before it finds the integer 4. Array.isArray should return true and therefore continue to concat the array no?

Your code so far

function steamrollArray(arr) {

  console.log(arr.reduce((acc, item) => { 
   if (Array.isArray(item)){
     return acc.concat(item);
   } else {
     return [item];
   }
},[])

)
}

steamrollArray([1, [2], [3, [[4]]]]);

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[JeremyLT]

@maybol283

return [item];

This line I’m concerned about.

The return value from the reduce callback generally needs to involve acc

[maybol283]

So I updated it sprading my acc as such:

return [...acc, item];

still no dice my console log just shows:

[ 1, 2, 3, [ [ 4 ] ] ]

[JeremyLT]

Better but now you found the other problem.

You need a way to handle multiply nested arrays. You removed one layer of depth around that 4 instead of every layer of depth.

There are a few ways to do this.

[josephylee]

I hated this one with a passion. With the fire of a thousand suns.

[JeremyLT]

Getting the arbitrary depth of nesting is tricky for sure. Lots of ways to attack it