Dart: Scalable Application Development

Flattening a list

A list can contain other lists as elements. This is effectively a two-dimensional list or array. Flattening means making a single list with all sublist items contained in it. Take a look at the different possibilities in flatten_list.dart.

How to do it...

We show three ways to flatten a list in the following code:

List lst = [[1.5, 3.14, 45.3], ['m', 'pi', '7'], [true, false, true]];
// flattening lst must give the following resulting List flat:
// [1.5, 3.14, 45.3, m, pi, 7, true, false, true]

void main() {
  // 1- using forEach and addAll:
  var flat = [];
  lst.forEach((e) => flat.addAll(e));
  print(flat);
  // 2- using Iterable.expand:
  flat = lst.expand((i) => i).toList();
  // 3- more nesting levels, work recursively: lst = [[1.5, ...