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| id: 5a23c84252665b21eecc802a
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| title: Stream Merge
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| challengeType: 5
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| ---
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| 
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| ## Description
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| <section id='description'>
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| Write a function that takes multiple sorted arrays of items, and returns one array of sorted items.
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| </section>
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| 
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| ## Instructions
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| <section id='instructions'>
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| 
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| </section>
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| 
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| ## Tests
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| <section id='tests'>
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| 
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| ``` yml
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| tests:
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|   - text: <code>mergeLists</code> should be a function.
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|     testString: assert(typeof mergeLists == 'function', '<code>mergeLists</code> should be a function.');
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|   - text: <code>mergeLists([[1, 3, 5, 9, 10], [2, 4, 6, 7, 8]])</code> should return a array.
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|     testString: assert(Array.isArray(mergeLists([[1, 3, 5, 9, 10], [2, 4, 6, 7, 8]])), '<code>mergeLists([[1, 3, 5, 9, 10], [2, 4, 6, 7, 8]])</code> should return a array.');
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|   - text: <code>mergeLists([[1, 3, 5, 9, 10], [2, 4, 6, 7, 8]])</code> should return <code>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]</code>.
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|     testString: assert.deepEqual(mergeLists([[1, 3, 5, 9, 10], [2, 4, 6, 7, 8]]), [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], '<code>mergeLists([[1, 3, 5, 9, 10], [2, 4, 6, 7, 8]])</code> should return <code>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]</code>.');
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|   - text: <code>mergeLists([[1, 4, 7, 10], [2, 5, 8, 11], [3, 6, 9, 12]])</code> should return <code>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]</code>.
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|     testString: assert.deepEqual(mergeLists([[1, 4, 7, 10], [2, 5, 8, 11], [3, 6, 9, 12]]), [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12], '<code>mergeLists([[1, 4, 7, 10], [2, 5, 8, 11], [3, 6, 9, 12]])</code> should return <code>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]</code>.');
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|   - text: <code>mergeLists([[1, 3, 9, 14, 15, 17, 28], [7, 8, 14, 14, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30], [9, 23, 25, 29]])</code> should return <code>[1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 9, 14, 14, 14, 15, 17, 23, 23, 25, 26, 28, 28, 29, 29, 30]</code>.
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|     testString: assert.deepEqual(mergeLists([[1, 3, 9, 14, 15, 17, 28], [7, 8, 14, 14, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30], [9, 23, 25, 29]]), [1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 9, 14, 14, 14, 15, 17, 23, 23, 25, 26, 28, 28, 29, 29, 30], '<code>mergeLists([[1, 3, 9, 14, 15, 17, 28], [7, 8, 14, 14, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30], [9, 23, 25, 29]])</code> should return <code>[1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 9, 14, 14, 14, 15, 17, 23, 23, 25, 26, 28, 28, 29, 29, 30]</code>.');
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|   - text: <code>mergeLists([[3, 14, 15], [2, 17, 18], [], [2, 3, 5, 7]])</code> should return <code>[2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, 14, 15, 17, 18]</code>.
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|     testString: assert.deepEqual(mergeLists([[3, 14, 15], [2, 17, 18], [], [2, 3, 5, 7]]), [2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, 14, 15, 17, 18], '<code>mergeLists([[3, 14, 15], [2, 17, 18], [], [2, 3, 5, 7]])</code> should return <code>[2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, 14, 15, 17, 18]</code>.');
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|   - text: <code>mergeLists([[1, 19, 1999], [17, 33, 2999, 3000], [8, 500, 3999]])</code> should return <code>[1, 8, 17, 19, 33, 500, 1999, 2999, 3000, 3999]</code>.
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|     testString: assert.deepEqual(mergeLists([[1, 19, 1999], [17, 33, 2999, 3000], [8, 500, 3999]]), [1, 8, 17, 19, 33, 500, 1999, 2999, 3000, 3999], '<code>mergeLists([[1, 19, 1999], [17, 33, 2999, 3000], [8, 500, 3999]])</code> should return <code>[1, 8, 17, 19, 33, 500, 1999, 2999, 3000, 3999]</code>.');
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| ```
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| 
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| </section>
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| 
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| ## Challenge Seed
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| <section id='challengeSeed'>
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| <div id='js-seed'>
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| 
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| ```js
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| function mergeLists (lists) {
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|   // Good luck!
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| }
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| ```
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| 
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| </div>
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| </section>
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| 
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| ## Solution
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| <section id='solution'>
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| 
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| ```js
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| function mergeLists (lists) {
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|   function merge (l1, l2) {
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|     var result = [], i=0, j=0;
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|     while (l1.length && l2.length) {
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|       if(l1[i]<=l2[j]){
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|         result.push(l1.shift());
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|       }else{
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|         result.push(l2.shift());
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|       }
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|     }
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| 
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|     result.push.apply(result, l1);
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|     result.push.apply(result, l2);
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|     return result;
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|   }
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| 
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|   var result=lists[0];
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|   for (var i = 1; i < lists.length; i++) {
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|     result=merge(result, lists[i]);
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|   }
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| 
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|   return result;
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| }
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| ```
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| 
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| </section> |