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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>flatten</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="flat-file.html" title="flat-file"/><link rel="next" href="flavor.html" title="flavor"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">flatten</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flat-file.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flavor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="flatten"/><dt xmlns="" id="flatten"><b>flatten</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] To remove structural information, esp. to filter something
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with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also
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tends to imply mapping to <a href="flat-ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">flat-ASCII</i></a>. “<span class="quote">This
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code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent
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<a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> form.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flat-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flavor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flat-file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flavor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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