Ruby Set flatten method

In ruby programming, flatten() Set methods are used to copy set object. This method are are flattening each containing set recursively and return resultant newly set.

set.flatten() -> new set

Example of Set flatten method

Basically this method are flattened a given set elements and copy non enumerable objects and share enumerable objects. See this example.

require "set"
# Set a1
a1 = Set[10,20,['a', 'b']]
# Set a2
a2 = Set[40,a1,30]
# Set a3
a3 = Set[50,a2]

# Copy set
result = a3.flatten()

# Display result
print("\na1     : ",a1.to_a)
print("\na2     : ",a2.to_a)
print("\na3     : ",a3.to_a)
print("\nresult : ",result.to_a)

a1     : [10, 20, ["a", "b"]]
a2     : [40, #<Set: {10, 20, ["a", "b"]}>, 30]
a3     : [50, #<Set: {40, #<Set: {10, 20, ["a", "b"]}>, 30}>]
result : [50, 40, 10, 20, ["a", "b"], 30]