Difference between Seq.map and Seq.collect in F#

Question

In F#, what is the difference between functions "Seq.collect" and "Seq.map"? They seem equivalent from the description on MSDN.

Answer 1

If you know LINQ, the following comparison may be useful:

F#: Seq.map , LINQ: Select

F#: Seq.collect , LINQ: SelectMany

Answer 2

Seq.collect will first map each sequence element to a new sequence and flatten this sequences into a single one.

Seq.map will just map each element to a new element .