Task

Write a function to flatten the nesting in an arbitrary list of values.

Your program should work on the equivalent of this list:

  [[1], 2, [[3, 4], 5], [[[]]], [[[6]]], 7, 8, []]

Where the correct result would be the list:

   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Related task

   Tree traversal


sString$ = "[[1], 2, [[3,4], 5], [[[]]], [[[6]]], 7, 8 []]"
 
FOR siCount = 1 TO LEN(sString$)
    IF INSTR("[] ,", MID$(sString$, siCount, 1)) = 0 THEN
        sFlatter$ = sFlatter$ + sComma$ + MID$(sString$, siCount, 1)
        sComma$ = ", "
    END IF
NEXT siCount
 
PRINT "["; sFlatter$; "]"
END