Thanks. I was specifically asking about `filter!` but your code works well
and it's only occupying 4 lines of code, so it should suffice.
Much appreciated
On Friday, 14 August 2015 12:18:29 UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>
> if you want to do this, yes:
>
>
> julia> a=Dict("A"=>1, "B"=>2)
> Dict{ASCIIString,Int64} with 2 entries:
> "B" => 2
> "A" => 1
>
> julia> around_a=Dict("A"=>3, "B"=>a)
> Dict{ASCIIString,Any} with 2 entries:
> "B" => Dict("B"=>2,"A"=>1)
> "A" => 3
>
> julia> if (around_a["B"]["A"] == 1)
> delete!(around_a["B"],"A");
> end
>
> julia> around_a
> Dict{ASCIIString,Any} with 2 entries:
> "B" => Dict("B"=>2)
> "A" => 3
>
>
>
> On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 12:07:28 PM UTC-4, Ian Butterworth wrote:
>>
>> I have a dict containing both key+value pairs, and key+[array of dict]
>> pairs.
>>
>> Can I use filter! to remove the entire parent dict if condition in child
>> is met?
>>
>> i.e.
>>
>> If measurements[uniqueentrykey]["studyid"] == "bad study" then remove
>> measurements[uniqueentrykey]
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
