Hello everyone, I’m trying to search for a specific key in a deeply nested dict which can also contain arrays. In a first step I import a yaml file which I parse using YAML.jl. This gives me a nested dict. If we take the truncated example of the README file from the YAML.jl package: # data.yml r…

Wouldn’t this be a classic case of recursion? This code can be easily modified to push multiple positive results to an array. function retrieve(dict, key_of_interest) for (key, value) in dict if key == key_of_interest return value end if value isa Dict …

Looking for a key in a nested dict

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Tamas_Papp November 6, 2018, 1:21pm 3

Nice, could possibly also descend into any AbstractDict.

Descend into any `AbstractDict`

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Looking for a key in a nested dict

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