Add flatten helper to take apart messy nested lists

This isn't 100% necessary, but it's a friendly feature to add, and it
was a fun function to write.

misc.go

@@ -270,6 +270,28 @@ func DirifyFileList(fileList []string, removeDirs bool) []string {
 	return result
 }
 
+// FlattenListWithSplit flattens a list of input by splitting each element by
+// any and all of the strings listed in the split array
+func FlattenListWithSplit(input []string, split []string) []string {
+	if len(split) == 0 { // nothing to split by
+		return input
+	}
+	out := []string{}
+	for _, x := range input {
+		s := []string{}
+		if len(split) == 1 {
+			s = strings.Split(x, split[0]) // split by only string
+		} else {
+			s = []string{x} // initial
+			for i := range split {
+				s = FlattenListWithSplit(s, []string{split[i]}) // recurse
+			}
+		}
+		out = append(out, s...)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // special version of time.After that blocks when given a negative integer
 // when used in a case statement, the timer restarts on each select call to it
 func TimeAfterOrBlock(t int) <-chan time.Time {

misc_test.go

@@ -742,3 +742,71 @@ func TestMiscT11(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestMiscFlattenListWithSplit1(t *testing.T) {
+	{
+		in := []string{} // input
+		ex := []string{} // expected
+		out := FlattenListWithSplit(in, []string{",", ";", " "})
+		sort.Strings(out)
+		sort.Strings(ex)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ex, out) {
+			t.Errorf("FlattenListWithSplit expected: %v; got: %v.", ex, out)
+		}
+	}
+
+	{
+		in := []string{"hey"} // input
+		ex := []string{"hey"} // expected
+		out := FlattenListWithSplit(in, []string{",", ";", " "})
+		sort.Strings(out)
+		sort.Strings(ex)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ex, out) {
+			t.Errorf("FlattenListWithSplit expected: %v; got: %v.", ex, out)
+		}
+	}
+
+	{
+		in := []string{"a", "b", "c", "d"} // input
+		ex := []string{"a", "b", "c", "d"} // expected
+		out := FlattenListWithSplit(in, []string{",", ";", " "})
+		sort.Strings(out)
+		sort.Strings(ex)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ex, out) {
+			t.Errorf("FlattenListWithSplit expected: %v; got: %v.", ex, out)
+		}
+	}
+
+	{
+		in := []string{"a,b,c,d"}          // input
+		ex := []string{"a", "b", "c", "d"} // expected
+		out := FlattenListWithSplit(in, []string{",", ";", " "})
+		sort.Strings(out)
+		sort.Strings(ex)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ex, out) {
+			t.Errorf("FlattenListWithSplit expected: %v; got: %v.", ex, out)
+		}
+	}
+
+	{
+		in := []string{"a,b;c d"}          // input (mixed)
+		ex := []string{"a", "b", "c", "d"} // expected
+		out := FlattenListWithSplit(in, []string{",", ";", " "})
+		sort.Strings(out)
+		sort.Strings(ex)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ex, out) {
+			t.Errorf("FlattenListWithSplit expected: %v; got: %v.", ex, out)
+		}
+	}
+
+	{
+		in := []string{"a,b,c,d;e,f,g,h;i,j,k,l;m,n,o,p q,r,s,t;u,v,w,x y z"}                                                                            // input (mixed)
+		ex := []string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"} // expected
+		out := FlattenListWithSplit(in, []string{",", ";", " "})
+		sort.Strings(out)
+		sort.Strings(ex)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ex, out) {
+			t.Errorf("FlattenListWithSplit expected: %v; got: %v.", ex, out)
+		}
+	}
+}