I have a struct like mutable struct State ID::Int64 kind::Symbol val::Float64 end that contains info about one object, but what I’m interested in is States, a collection of multiple State objects. I am combining each separate State into an array and defining States = Array{State}(undef…

One solution is using https://github.com/piever/StructArrays.jl .

Array of Structs: getindex, slicing, and broadcasting getfield

rdeits March 14, 2019, 9:16pm 3

I would suggest defining an accessor function and then broadcasting that function:

id(s::State) = s.ID

id.(states)

Does that work for your use case?

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