Difference between JSON object and JSON array

When you are working with JSON data in Android, you would use JSONArray to parse JSON which starts with the array brackets. Arrays in JSON are used to organize a collection of related items (Which could be JSON objects). For example: [{“name”:”item 1″},{“name”: “item2”} ] On the other hand, you would use JSONObject when dealing … Read more

jq: how to filter an array of objects based on values in an inner array?

Very close! In your select expression, you have to use a pipe (|) before contains. This filter produces the expected output. . – map(select(.Names[] | contains (“data”))) | .[] .Id The jq Cookbook has an example of the syntax. Filter objects based on the contents of a key E.g., I only want objects whose genre … Read more

How to optimally divide an array into two subarrays so that sum of elements in both are same, otherwise give an error?

There exists a solution, which involves dynamic programming, that runs in O(n*TotalSum), where n is the number of elements in the array and TotalSum is their total sum. The first part consists in calculating the set of all numbers that can be created by adding elements to the array. For an array of size n, … Read more

Delete element in an array for julia

You can also go with filter!: a = Any[“D”, “A”, “s”, “t”] filter!(e->e≠”s”,a) println(a) gives: Any[“D”,”A”,”t”] This allows to delete several values at once, as in: filter!(e->e∉[“s”,”A”],a) Note 1: In Julia 0.5, anonymous functions are much faster and the little penalty felt in 0.4 is not an issue anymore 🙂 . Note 2: Code above … Read more

bash: how to delete elements from an array based on a pattern

Filtering an array is tricky if you consider possibility of elements containing spaces (not to mention even “weirder” characters). In particular answers given so far (referring to various forms of ${x[@]//pref*/}) will fail with such arrays. I have investigated this issue somewhat and found a solution however it is not a nice one-liner. But at … Read more

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