function to save results in an efficient file

Hackaton/Project.toml

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+name = "Hackaton"
+uuid = "54770aa0-30bd-4802-936f-8f0ece771688"
+authors = ["Ssalazar12 <[email protected]>"]
+version = "0.1.0"

Hackaton/src/Hackaton.jl

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+module Hackaton
+
+greet() = print("Hello World!")
+
+end # module Hackaton

src/save_results.jl

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+using FileIO
+
+
+function export_results_dict(res::Result)
+	# takes an instance of the Result Structure and ommits the NaN's
+	# by creating a dictionary at each elelement of Result.solutions
+	# which only saves the non-Nan indices and values
+
+    dimensions_parameters = size(res.solutions)
+    dimension_solutions = length(res.solutions[1])
+
+    # THis is a janky way of asking whether we sweep through 1 or 2 parameters
+    if length(dimensions_parameters) == 1
+        M=Array{Dict}(undef, dimensions_parameters[1])
+    elseif length(dimensions_parameters) == 2
+        M=Array{Dict}(undef, dimensions_parameters[1],dimensions_parameters[2])
+    end
+
+    # Iterate over each of the array elements
+    for iter in eachindex(res.solutions)
+        A = res.solutions[iter]
+        value_list= []
+        key_list = []
+        # ask wether the solution is NaN
+        for i in 1:dimension_solutions
+            if isnan(A[i][1]) == false
+                push!(key_list, i)
+                push!(value_list, A[i])
+            end
+        end
+        # save a dictionary at each element of the M matrix
+        M[iter] = Dict(key_list .=> value_list)
+    end
+    return M  
+end
+
+# Example for some result obtained by result = get_steady_states(harmonic_eq2, varied, fixed)
+
+MM = export_results_dict(result);
+
+save("dict_version.jld2", Dict("solution_matrix" => MM, "classes" => result.classes,  
+        "swept_parameters" => result.swept_parameters, "jacobian"=>result.jacobian, 
+         "num_solutions" => length(result.solutions[1,1])))
+
+
+