Find a string in a deeply nested Julia data structure

find.jl

function find_string(obj, name::String, string::String)
    for _name in propertynames(obj)
        found = find_string(getproperty(obj, _name), name * "." * String(_name), string)
        if !isnothing(found)
            return found
        end
    end
end

function find_string(obj::String, name::String, string::String)
    if occursin(string, obj)
        return name
    end
    return nothing
end


function find_string(obj::AbstractVector, name::String, string::String)
    for i in eachindex(obj)
        found = find_string(obj[i], name * "[$i]", string)
        if !isnothing(found)
            return found
        end
    end
    return nothing
end

function find_string(obj::AbstractDict, name::String, string::String)
    for k in keys(obj)
        found = find_string(obj[k], name * "[$(repr(k))]", string)
        if !isnothing(found)
            return found
        end
    end
    return nothing
end