# Finding all RShape children recursively (Geomerative)

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**Created:** [April 13, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/finding-all-rshape-children-recursively-geomerative/10241 "2019-04-13T17:35:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/finding-all-rshape-children-recursively-geomerative/10241/2 "2019-04-13T19:02:33Z")

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Tried a few different things and came up with this function:

```auto
RShape[] getAllChildren(RShape shp) {
  ArrayList<RShape> result = new ArrayList<RShape>();
  int numChildren = shp.countChildren();
  if (numChildren != 0) {
    for (int i = 0; i < numChildren; i++) {
      RShape[] children = getAllChildren(shp.children[i]);
      for (int j = 0; j < children.length; j++) {
        result.add(children[j]);
      }
    }
  } else {
    result.add(shp);
  }
  return result.toArray(new RShape[result.size()]);
}

```

I did a few tests and it seems working but if anyone has a better solution, please let me know!

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