Well, heres a version that responds to a couple of your concerns, and a couple of mine. For instance all of the posted solutions break if the array is blessed, I thought monks at our level weren't supposed to fall into the 'ref' trap ;-). Also I use a variant of 'Annony's solution, but without the grep as I wanted a general solution (note that his use of map AND grep is superfluous, the whole shebang can be done in one map).

I use overload::StrVal to keep a record of seen nodes to avoid cycles. This means its not ncessary to keep a depth count. Also I cant see much benefit in writing this iteratively. You'd have to maintain your own stack and the overhead for this situation (imo) isn't worth the bother.

use overload;
use Carp;

sub flatten {
    my $ref  = shift;
    my $seen = shift || "";
    return map {
        (UNIVERSAL::isa($_,"ARRAY")) ? do {
            my $ref_str=overload::StrVal($_);
            Carp::croak "Cant flatten cyclic data structure !"
                if index($seen,$ref_str)>=0;
            flatten($_,$seen."$ref_str");
        } : $_ #change to #} : $_ ? $_ :()# to simulate grep
        } @$ref;
}

require Data::Dumper;
print Data::Dumper::Dumper([
     flatten([qw(array of elements),
              [qw(and arrays)],
              bless [qw(even blessed ones)],"FooArray"
             ])
]);
__END__
$VAR1 = [
          'array',
          'of',
          'elements',
          'and',
          'arrays',
          'even',
          'blessed',
          'ones'
        ];

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Fixed spelling mistake.

Yves / DeMerphq
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In reply to Re: Re: How to flatten an x-dimensional array? by demerphq
in thread How to flatten an x-dimensional array? by Incognito

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