How to convert Vector{Any} to a narrower type?

[feanor12]

You can broadcast identity.

Is there a coalesce function for other types?

I found this nice function called coalesce and now I am wondering if there is a more general one. Is there a function like coalesce which can specify the missing value/type. a = [NaN,missing,"",2,3.0] coalesce.(a,0) coalesce.(a,0,missing="") # fails coalesce.(a,0,missing=NaN) # fails Update: A good solution might be: clean(a,junk,target) = identity.(replace(a, (junk .=> target)...)) clean(a,["",missing,NaN],0)