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New and very basic template replacement program released

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Yesterday the first release of my new console application, BogBat v0.1.0 was released. I wanted a program to replace templates (or placeholders) in a text file with values from a data file. I didn't need anything fancy such as loops, conditionals, built in text processing functions or white space control. Only simple replacement was needed. And the name, well it's the Bog Bas ic t emplate program. The reason I wanted this program was to help automate some program builds by automatically updating version numbers and dates in source files. To be honest I'd started writing this program in a private GitHub repo in 2023 and forgotten all about it. Upon stumbling across it the other day I decided to finish it and make the repo public. Anyhow, here it is. All the usual warnings about early release code apply: bugs likely, command line and functionality subject to change across v0.x releases. The program takes two input files, one containing the templated text and another contai...
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Array Utilities Unit GitHub repo now public

Whoops! It's just been pointed out to me that the Array Utilities Unit I published yesterday isn't accessible because the GitHub repo is private. Thx Luca. I've now made it public . ➡️  Download the 1st release from GitHub Sorry about that
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New Array Utilities Library Unit released

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Yesterday I added a shiny new unit to the DelphiDabbler Code Library - the Array Utilities Unit . It lives in the ddablib/arrayutils  repo on GitHub. This unit, named DelphiDabbler.Lib.ArrayUtils.pas ,   provides a single "Advanced" record, TArrayUtils , that contains static methods that perform common operations on generic arrays. There are numerous overloaded versions of many of the methods. Every method operates on a given generic array that is passed as a parameter, either as an array of T or a TArray<T> . The unit requires Delphi XE or later. It has been tested with Delphi XE and Delphi 12. The code depends only on the Delphi RTL, so it should work for any platform supported by Delphi and be both VCL and FireMonkey compatible. I've only tested Windows 32 bit and 64 bit targets. There are far too many methods to describe in here, but you can find them all listed and explained in the comprehensive  online documentation . As a taster you'll find Methods that ...
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CodeSnip v4.26.0 released

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CodeSnip v4.26.0 has just been released. This release focusses mainly on adding more file formats when saving snippet information to file. You can now save such info in Plain Text, Markdown, HTML 5 & XHTML in addition to the existing Rich Text Format. The Help menu item that used to link to the CodeSnip blog now links here, as does any read-me file that links to the blog. There have been a few other changes and a minor bug fix which you can read about in the change log . ➤  Get v4.26.0 from GitHub
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CodeSnip v4.25.0 released (includes a fix of a fix for a fix)

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It's nice to be able to release a version of  CodeSnip  containing new features instead of bug fixes. Except that this release also includes bug fixes, including episode 3 of the hibernation bug fix saga. So what's new? Not a lot except for some new snippet export options: For the longest time you've been able to get a copy on the clipboard all the information about a snippet that gets displayed in the detail pane. Now you can finally save the information directly to a file. The only option is Rich Text Format just now, but more formats may make an appearance later. When exporting Pascal units and annotated snippet source code various formats can be chosen. HTML 5 format export files has now joined the list or plain text, Pascal, RTF and XHTML Some annoying, but relatively trivial bugs have also been fixed. Go see the change log if you're curious. But I can't close this post without mentioning the hibernation bug fix saga. A third fix of the bug where CodeSnip somet...
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Hotfix available: CodeSnip bug fix fix

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It had to happen didn't it? Not long after my  post about yesterday's bug fix  release of CodeSnip,  Oliver  reached out to point out a potential problem with the way I'd implemented it. See the linked post and comments if you're interested in the details. Suffice to say that the problem was sufficient for me to hunt for an alternative solution. Having found one I've rushed out hotfix v4.24.2 to patch yesterday's release (v4.24.1) and make it more robust. Whether or not you downloaded yesterday's you really should update CodeSnip to the hotfix release. ⮞  Get hotfix release v4.24.2 from GitHub . For more info please see the similar post on the CodeSnip Blog .
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Apologies to Oliver for deleting comment re CodeSnip bug fix

This is just a quick post to apologise to Oliver  for accidentally deleting his very useful comment on yesterday's post about fixing a long running bug in CodeSnip. I've reinstated as much of his comment as I could glean from an email notification as a reply to the deleted comment. Suffice to say, I'm now fixing the CodeSnip fix as a result of the info Oliver provided! So thanks for your help Oliver - I appreciate it.
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