Hello!

I just have what I hope is a quick question. Is it possible to clear all values from a Dictionary? I have a situation where I'm not totally sure what values will be in the dictionary but I need to clear them out so past values don't interfere with new ones. Is there a way to use Dictionary Remove? Thanks so much!

Cheers!
Caleb

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In my experience, the easiest way to have an empty dictionary is just to create a new one to replace the one you've been using. It might help if you could expand a bit on the case you want, but usually just assigning NewDictionary() to whatever variable or attribute you have will do it.

If you do need to empty a dictionary, here's one way to do it:

  <function name="EmptyDictionary" parameters="dict">
    keys = NewList()
    foreach (key, dict) {
      list add (keys, key)
    }
    foreach (key, keys) {
      dictionary remove (dict, key)
    }
  </function>

You can't modify the dictionary while enumerating it. So you have to shove the keys somewhere else first.

Thanks Jay! Using NewDictionary() worked perfectly.

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