The formatting of the rest of JSON document is kept as is. Comments appearing inside the deleted elements are also deleted. Other comments are left as is.
Details
If json has no selection then the the whole document is deleted.
If json has an empty selection, then nothing is delted.
Examples
json <- load_json(text = "{ \"a\": //comment\ntrue, \"b\": [1, 2, 3] }")
json
#> # json (2 lines)
#> 1 | { "a": //comment
#> 2 | true, "b": [1, 2, 3] }
json |> select("a")
#> # json (2 lines, 1 selected element)
#> 1 | { "a": //comment
#> > 2 | true, "b": [1, 2, 3] }
json |> select("a") |> delete_selected()
#> # json (1 line)
#> 1 | { "b": [1, 2, 3] }