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The flat_map() of enumerable is an inbuilt method in Ruby returns a new array with the concatenated results of running block once for every element in enum. In case no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.

Syntax: block.flat_map { |obj| block }

Parameters: The function takes the block according to which the every block is to be returned. If no block is given, an enumerator is returned.

Return Value: It returns a new array.

Example 1:




# Ruby program for flat_map method in Enumerable
  
# Initialize
enu = [12, 18]
  
# returns enumerator
res = enu.flat_map { |el| [2*el, 3*el] }


Output:

[24, 36, 36, 54]

Example 2:




# Ruby program for flat_map method in Enumerable
  
# Initialize
enu = [[17, 21], [19, 100]]
  
# returns enumerator
res = enu.flat_map { |el| el + [1000] }


Output:

[17, 21, 1000, 19, 100, 1000]

Last Updated : 18 Dec, 2019
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