[removed] Make an array of value pairs form an array of values

Question

Is there an elegant, functional way to turn this array:

[ 1, 5, 9, 21 ]

into this

[ [1, 5], [5, 9], [9, 21] ]

I kn

Answer 1

I'm sure there is an elegant way, programmatically, but, mathematically I can't help seeing that each new pair has an index difference of 1 from the original array.

If you (later) have the need to turn your array [ 1, 5, 9, 21, 33 ] into [ [1, 9], [5, 21], [9, 33] ], you can use the fact that the difference between the indices is 2.

If you create code for the index difference of 1, extending this would be easy.

Answer 2

This is easily done with array.reduce. What the following does is use an array as aggregator, skips the first item, then for each item after that pushes previous item and the current item as a pair to the array.

const arr = [ 1, 5, 9, 21 ];
const chunked = arr.reduce((p, c, i, a) => i === 0 ? p : (p.push([c, a[i-1]]), p), []);

console.log(chunked);

An expanded version would look like:

const arr = [1, 5, 9, 21];
const chunked = arr.reduce(function(previous, current, index, array) {
  if(index === 0){
    return previous;
  } else {
    previous.push([ current, array[index - 1]]);
    return previous;
  }
}, []);

console.log(chunked);