git subrepo clone https://leap.se/git/puppet_stdlib puppet/modules/stdlib

subrepo:
  subdir:   "puppet/modules/stdlib"
  merged:   "7112363"
upstream:
  origin:   "https://leap.se/git/puppet_stdlib"
  branch:   "master"
  commit:   "7112363"
git-subrepo:
  version:  "0.3.0"
  origin:   "https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo.git"
  commit:   "cb2995b"

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diff --git a/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/puppet/parser/functions/flatten.rb b/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/puppet/parser/functions/flatten.rb
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+++ b/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/puppet/parser/functions/flatten.rb
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+#
+# flatten.rb
+#
+
+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+  newfunction(:flatten, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
+This function flattens any deeply nested arrays and returns a single flat array
+as a result.
+
+*Examples:*
+
+    flatten(['a', ['b', ['c']]])
+
+Would return: ['a','b','c']
+    EOS
+  ) do |arguments|
+
+    raise(Puppet::ParseError, "flatten(): Wrong number of arguments " +
+      "given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.size != 1
+
+    array = arguments[0]
+
+    unless array.is_a?(Array)
+      raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'flatten(): Requires array to work with')
+    end
+
+    result = array.flatten
+
+    return result
+  end
+end
+
+# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :