Check for duplication inside a plist

Question

I'm making a word game, and storing the words in a plist that I'm editing manually.

It now contains more than 600 words. When I write in new ones I'm always concerned, that the words already exist. I always have to search before I type a new one in, and this is really slows down the whole process.

Is there any way that I can check the list for duplication when I type in immediately, or check the whole plist for duplication and delete the duplicated words?

Answer 1

Make yourself a helper tool.

The tool will read in the array of strings from the plist and convert it to a set. Then it will accept new strings as input, adding them to the set. Duplicates simply won't be added. Convert the set back to an array before writing the file out.