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Component: Dictionary

Key/Value map to store values. An assoziative array preserving data types.

Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	iOS SDK
5.0 / 11.4	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes

Item	Details
Dictionary.AddDictionary Adds entries from other dictionary to current one.	All 11.1
Dictionary.AddSQL Adds values to a dictionary via SQL.	All 5.1
Dictionary.AddSQLRecord Adds values from a record to dictionary via SQL.	All 7.4
Dictionary.AddSQLRecords Adds values from a record to dictionary via SQL.	All 7.4
Dictionary.Clear Clears the dictionary content.	All 5.0
Dictionary.Clone Creates a copy of the dictionary.	All 6.1
Dictionary.Count Returns number of keys in the dictionary.	All 5.0
Dictionary.Create Creates a new dictionary.	All 5.0
Dictionary.CreateNamed Creates a new dictionary with desired key.	All 8.1
Dictionary.Deserialize Restores a serialized dictionary.	All 5.2
Dictionary.FromJSON Creates dictionary from JSON.	All 11.1
Dictionary.HasKey Checks if the given key exists in dictionary.	All 5.0
Dictionary.KeyAtIndex Returns key with given index.	All 5.0
Dictionary.Keys Returns list with all keys.	All 5.0
Dictionary.KeysWithPostfix Returns list with all keys matching postfix.	All 11.4
Dictionary.KeysWithPrefix Returns list with all keys matching prefix.	All 11.4
Dictionary.List Returns list of all dictionary IDs.	All 5.2
Dictionary.Release Releases dictionary and all memory used.	All 5.0
Dictionary.ReleaseAll Releases all dictionaries.	All 10.5
Dictionary.RemoveKey Removes value with given key.	All 5.0
Dictionary.Serialize Serialized a dictionary as a text.	All 5.2
Dictionary.SetList Fills dictionary with keys and values form a list.	All 6.2
Dictionary.SetQuickList Fills dictionary with keys and values form a quick list.	All 7.1
Dictionary.SetValueForKey Stores value for given key.	All 5.0
Dictionary.SetVariables Creates variables with given keys and values from dictionary.	All 5.1
Dictionary.ToJSON Returns JSON representation of dictionary for data exchange.	All 6.1
Dictionary.ToText Returns text representation of dictionary for data exchange.	All 6.1
Dictionary.ToXML Returns XML representation of dictionary for data exchange.	All 6.1
Dictionary.ValueForKey Queries value for the key.	All 5.0
Dictionary.ValueTypeForKey Queries data type of the value for the key.	All 5.1
Dictionary.Values Returns list with all values as text.	All 5.1
FM.CF Calls a custom function given the name with FileMaker values.	All 11.3

32 functions shown.

Release notes

Version 11.4
- Added Dictionary.KeysWithPostfix and Dictionary.KeysWithPrefix functions.
- Improved Dictionary.SetVariables to not allow invalid variable names.
Version 11.3
- Added FM.CF function to run custom functions defined in a database table and managed via Dictionary functions.
Version 11.1
- Added Dictionary.AddDictionary and Dictionary.FromJSON functions.
Version 11.0
- Fixed issue with FM.SQL.JSONRecord, FM.SQL.JSONRecords and Dictionary.ToJSON where long numbers where truncated to double precision.
Version 10.5
- Added AVExport.ReleaseAll, AVRecorder.ReleaseAll, CoreML.ReleaseAll, DNSLookup.ReleaseAll, Dictionary.ReleaseAll, FM.SQL.ReleaseAll, JS.ReleaseAll, JavaScript.ReleaseAll, LDAP.ReleaseAll, PDFKit.ReleaseAll, PKCS12.ReleaseAll, PKCS7.ReleaseAll, PKey.ReleaseAll, SSH.ReleaseAll, WinSendMail.ReleaseAll, WindowsML.ReleaseAll, WordFile.ReleaseAll, and X509.ReleaseAll.
Version 8.2
- Fixed Dictionary.Deserialize to decode empty timestamps and dates as empty values instead of 00/00/0000.
Version 8.1
- Added Dictionary.CreateNamed function.
Version 7.4
- Added Dictionary.AddSQLRecord(s) function.
Version 7.2
- Added option to Dictionary.SetVariables for creating global variables.

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