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Looping and Flattening Arrays Guide

The document explains how to loop through items in an array using different loop methods, primarily focusing on the for-loop. It also introduces nested arrays and demonstrates how to access elements within them. Additionally, it provides a task to define a function called arrayFlattener that converts a two-dimensional array into a one-dimensional array.

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Looping and Flattening Arrays Guide

The document explains how to loop through items in an array using different loop methods, primarily focusing on the for-loop. It also introduces nested arrays and demonstrates how to access elements within them. Additionally, it provides a task to define a function called arrayFlattener that converts a two-dimensional array into a one-dimensional array.

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Loop On An Array Activity

Learning Outcome Addressed

3. Code logic to loop through items in an array

Loop on Arrays
Loops on Arrays
When we have a collection of elements stored in an array and have been asked to
iterate over it in order to either add or remove or change any of its elements, we use
a for-loop. There are also other loop methods to work with arrays(or objects)
like while and for...of.

Let's see an example where we loop over a simple array:

let candidates = ['Jenna', 'Carly', 'Sofia']


for (let i = 0; i < [Link]; i++) {
// Runs 5 times, with values of each candidate.
[Link](`Candidate #${i}: ${candidates[i]}`);
}
// resulting
// Candidate #0: Jenna
// Candidate #1: Carly
// Candidate #2: Sofia
Feel free to do some research on array methods.

Nested arrays

Arrays can have individual elements but can also have nested arrays as elements.

For example:

let oss = [['Windows', 'MacOS'], ['Seattle', 'Cupertino']]

As you see, we have two elements in the array:

 The first one is ['Windows', 'MacOS']


 The second is ['Seattle', 'Cupertino']

If we get the length of the array:

[Link] // we get 2, not 4 as you may expected


So, how do access Seattle in this case? It looks like it's the third element here.
[Link](oss[2]) //undefined, because there is no 3rd element, only 2 el
ements

So, what we do is access the second element and then the first:
[Link](oss[1][0]) // Seattle

Now, that you know how to loop over arrays, you are ready to pass in the array as an
argument to a function.

Task instructions
Flattening arrays

Define a function called arrayFlattener, that accepts a two dimensional array as an


argument.
arrayFlattener should return a new, one-dimensional array.

Check the box when complete.

Task
Define a function arrayFlattener with a 2 dimensional array as parameter. Flatten
the array to one dimension.
//Array flattenr activity
// Define a function arrayFlattener with a 2 dimensional array
as parameter:
// example of 2 dimensional array: [1,[2,3],4,5]

//Return a new 1 dimensional array like, [1,2,3,4]

//your code here


//uncomment next line one by one, then check the console for r
esults
[Link](arrayFlattener([1,[2,3],4,5]))

//don't change this line


if (typeof module !== "undefined") {
[Link] = {
arrayFlattener,
};
}

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