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ins~delarrayelts

Purpose
Create an ins~entityupdate record for removing a multiple elements from an array.
Synopsis
function delarrayelts(entity:text, entriestodel:any):ins~entityupdate
Arguments
entity 
The name of the entity to update
entriestodel 
An array indexed by the same sets as the entity. The values will be ignored but all index tuples present will be removed from the array in the Insight scenario.
Return value
A value that can be passed to ins~updatescendata to delete elements from the array.
Example 
declarations
  SCENARIO_ID='2926e9a1-9568-4116-84ed-2e75190bc651'
  Regions: set of string
  Months: set of integer
  Prices: dynamic array(Regions, Months) of boolean
end-declarations
create(Prices('UK',1))
create(Prices('UK',2))
create(Prices('UK',3))
ins~updatescendata(SCENARIO_ID, [ ins~delarrayelts('Prices', Prices) ] )
if ins~haserror then
  writeln_('Error: ',ins~getlasterror)
end-if
Example of deleting the price entries for the UK region for months 1, 2 and 3.
Further information
This function cannot fail; invalid parameter values will only cause an error when the returned value is passed to ins~updatescendata.
Related topics
ins~addarrayelts, ins~delarrayelt, ins~updatescendata

Parent Topic Updating Scenario Data

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