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Farooq AR
Farooq AR

Reputation: 304

Reduce Multidimensional Array of Numbers

How can I find the sum of all the numbers in the following multidimensional array by the Array.prototype.reduce() function:

var arr = [["one",3],["five",15],["ten",30],["twenty",40]];

I know how to do that using for loop, but just wondering...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3973

Answers (2)

user663031
user663031

Reputation:

Break this down into sub-problems.

First, write getNumbers to get an array of numbers from the input. It uses getNumber, which get the second element in each little array. sum adds up the numbers in an array using reduce, which uses the add function to add two numbers

function sum(arr)        { return arr.reduce(add, 0); }
function add(a, b)       { return a + b; }
function getNumber(pair) { return pair[1]; }
function getNumbers(arr) { return arr.map(getNumber); }

var arr = [["one",3],["five",15],["ten",30],["twenty",40]];

console.log(sum(getNumbers(arr)));

Upvotes: 1

Rajaprabhu Aravindasamy
Rajaprabhu Aravindasamy

Reputation: 67207

You can do it like this,

var sum = [["one",3],["five",15],["ten",30],["twenty",40]].reduce(function(a,b){
  return a + b[1];
}, 0);

In the above code, 0 passed as a second argument is the initial value to be used in the calculation.

Upvotes: 9

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