If the performance of this matters, it will probably be faster to iterate over `1:nfields(myt)`, as that will avoid (1) constructing the array of symbols, (2) looking up the index within the type for that field.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:20 PM, K leo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks so much Mauro. That does it. > > On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 10:58:30 PM UTC+8, Mauro wrote: >> >> Try >> >> for fl in fieldnames(myt) >> push!(getfield(myt,fl), 0.) >> end >> >> `fieldnames` returns the name of the field as a symbol, thus your error. >> >> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 16:41, K leo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I hope to expand all arrays in a type using something like the >> > following: >> > >> > fields=fieldnames(myType) >> >> for i=1:length(fields) >> >> push!(fields[i], 0.) >> >> end >> > >> > >> > But I get error saying no method matching push!(::Symbol, ::Float64) >> > >> > What else can I do for my purpose?
