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Fill an Array with Sequential Values

By David Walsh on August 8, 2017

I've been contributing to Mozilla's awesome DevTools debugger because, well, I want to give back to the Firefox Engineers and all the developers who have stayed loyal to Firefox. Having my hand in loads of Mozilla projects is really satisfying, especially for my ego.

In any event, one task required me to fill an array with every number in a sequence, then I would filter out unwanted items based on another array. Here's how you can fill a range within an array:

const fillRange = (start, end) => {
  return Array(end - start + 1).fill().map((item, index) => start + index);
};

const allLines = fillRange(0, numLines - 1);

// [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...]

From there I could filter out what I didn't want:

let executableLines = [/* series of line numbers with code */];
const emptyLines = allLines.filter(i => !executableLines.includes(i));

When the feature gets merged (...and no one complains about their Firefox debugger...) I'll share more about my contribution!

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Discussion

Tracy-Gregory Gilmore
Would the instruction
```
const allLines = fillRange(0, numLines - 1);
```
not result in an array starting with zero as the first value?

David Walsh
Yes, you’re right! I’ve updated the post!

Jorge Ortega

Nice! Thanks to this post I could do this:

// Array of 24 hours string values ['00'...'23']
const hours = Array(24).fill().map((item, index) => index < 10 ? 0${index} : ${index})

// Array of 60 minutes string values ['00'...'59']
const minutes = Array(60).fill().map((item, index) => index < 10 ? 0${index} : ${index})

Luca Borrione

Great post! Little contribution:

const fillRange = (start, end) => {
	return [...Array(end - start + 1)].map((item, index) => start + index);
}

Tracy-Gregory Gilmore
Using an arrow function with a single expression does not require a return statement or statement block. Thus, the line of code above could be reduced to.
```
const fillRange = (start, end) => 
   [...Array(end - start + 1)].map((item, index) => start + index);
```

Nicolás Casanova
This is great, but, one question. If I want to have a list with decimals numbers, how can I do it?
example: 0.1 to 5.0. (resp: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 … 4.8, 4.9, 5)
How can I do this?
Thanks! :D

MR T-G J GILMORE
You could always map() the output of fillRange.
```
const decimals = fillRange(0, 50).map(int => int / 10);
```

MR T-G J GILMORE

That should have been 1 to 51:

const decimals = fillRange(1, 51).map(int => int / 10);

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