vector - How do I straighten a curved line in Illustrator and maintain its length?

How would I take this line and straighten it in illustrator without losing any of its length (Like if you held pulled a thread tight by both ends.)

Answer

You don't. Pulling or dragging something to straighten out a multi-curved path is not possible as far as I'm aware. You could move each and every anchor point, but then you'd be hard pressed to not alter the length of the curves as you moved points.

You can get the length and draw a new path.

Choose Window > Document Info, then in the Document Info Panel Menu set it to Objects and select your path. It will tell you the length of the path.

Draw a new path that length.