Extract child arrays from nested arrays
Element like [[14, 15], [16, 17]] will introduce a [] after recursion. This should be handled by checking length.
var arrs = [
[1, 2, [3, 4], 5],
[6, [7, 8, 9, [10, 11]]],
[12, 13],
[[14, 15], [16, 17]],
[[1], 4, [1, 1], 4]
];
function extractArrays (arr, acc=[]) {
if (arr.length == 0 ) return acc;
let pure = arr.filter(elm => !Array.isArray(elm));
if (pure.length > 0) {
acc.push(pure);
}
acc.concat(arr.filter(elm => Array.isArray(elm)).map(elm => extractArrays(elm, acc)));
return acc;
}
console.log(extractArrays(arrs));You can try the following code
var arrs = [
[1, 2, [3, 4], 5],
[6, [7, 8, 9, [10, 11]]],
[12, 13],
[
[14, 15],
[16, 17]
], // <-- added additional test case
[
[1], 4, [1, 1], 4
]
];
function extractArrays(arr) {
return arr.reduce((res, curr, i) => {
if (Array.isArray(curr)) {
res = res.concat(extractArrays(curr));
} else {
let index = 0;
for (let j = 0; j <= i; j++) {
if (!Array.isArray(arr[j])) {
res[index] ? res[index].push(curr) : res.push([curr]);
break;
} else {
index++;
}
}
}
return res;
}, []); // <-- no initial empty array inside here
}
console.log(extractArrays(arrs));I just wanted to share my approach to this problem, I enjoyed trying to solve it, in my case I also passed an array to the extractArrays method, in order to make easier to capture and filter every array inside the arrs param.
let result = [];
extractArrays(arrs, result);
console.log(result);
function extractArrays(arr, result) {
let newResult = arr.reduce((acc, curr) => {
if (Array.isArray(curr)) {
extractArrays(curr, result);
} else {
acc.push(curr);
}
return acc;
}, []);
newResult.length && result.push(newResult);
}