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Sets and Zips

Trying out Xojo 2023r3's new features

Issue: 21.6 (November/December 2023)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: Marc taught himself programming in high school when he bought his first computer but had no money for software. He's had fun learning ever since.
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I love how Xojo is regularly adding new language features. Two I hadn't expected in the latest update are support for sets and Zip archive files. I thought today I'd explore both of those.

Sets

I wrote about Sets in the past (see xDev 18.5, http://www.xdevmag.com/browse/18.5/18506/), using a custom SetClass class I wrote. But now with Xojo 2023r3, Sets are a standard part of the language. How does it compare?

Most importantly, note that my SetClass was limited to strings and only had a few functions. Xojo's implementation is far more powerful, using variants as its datatype so you can store just about anything into a set.

There are more comparison commands, too, such as complement and differences, in addition to the standard union and intersection.

There are also many more routines for getting data into and out of set objects. For example, you can use a set's fromDictionary method to bring in all the keys from a dictionary as items into that set. Likewise, there's a toDictionary command that exports the set items into a dictionary.

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