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A customer on the forum was asking for a way to do case-sensitive array sorting. The built-in array Sort command uses case-insensitive sorting and they wanted an alternative.
It turns out it is super-easy to use the Sort(Delegate) method to create your own sorting method and then pass it to the call to sort.
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Comments closedHere are a few keyboard shortcuts for the Navigator that you may not know about.
Comments closedThe Dictionary is a great class for managing a collection of items. A Dictionary gives you fast lookup of information which consists of two parts. The first part is a key that is a unique way to identify a value, which is the second part. These are each Variants so you can put any data type you want into the Dictionary.
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Comments closedAt WWDC 2019, Apple announced macOS Catalina (10.15). They didn’t specifically mention it during the keynote, but the writing has been on the wall for…
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Comments closedHere are a couple tips you can use with computed properties.
Comments closedIn a recent Star Trek Discovery episode, the crew was investigating how a probe (from the future!) was attempting to hack into their systems. This is what was said about it:
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a great text-based data format that can be used for files and web services data communication.
The structure is simpler than XML which makes it much smaller and since it does not make use of all the tags you’ll find in XML, it is also significantly easier to read. However, if you open unformatted JSON in a text editor you’ll probably find it a bit dense. Here’s how to get around that.
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