# Remove iterator in loop
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-iterator-in-loop/2926
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-iterator-in-loop/2926 "2017-03-28T13:41:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@miguelraz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/miguelraz)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-iterator-in-loop/2926/21 "2017-03-30T05:07:17Z")
@fengyang.wang Didn’t you actually note this yourself over here? 😃
[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16742](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16742)
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### Author:  [@denius](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/denius)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-iterator-in-loop/2926/22 "2017-03-30T09:23:23Z")
`filter`s doc is here [http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/collections.html#Base.filter](http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/collections.html#Base.filter)
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### Author:  [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-iterator-in-loop/2926/23 "2017-03-30T09:29:56Z")
The method that returns an interator is not defined there. This is the method that returns a collection.
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### Author:  [@fengyang.wang](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fengyang.wang)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-iterator-in-loop/2926/24 "2017-03-30T16:13:01Z")
Indeed, as @mkborregaard noted, the functions `Base.filter` and `Base.Iterators.filter` are distinct on 0.6 and up.
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