I recently discovered this awesome feature in Swift
Say you have a list of things, let's say a list of dictionaries.
myObj = [ [ "date": "2019-03-01", "message": "Hey there!" ], [ "date": "2019-03-02", "message": "Hi again!" ], [ "date": "2019-03-01", "message": "Bye!" ] ]
And you want to group these things by some recurring value.
var grouped = Dictionary(grouping: myObj, by: { $0["date"]! }) print(grouped) [ "2019-03-01": [ [ "date": "2019-03-01", "message": "Hey there!" ], [ "date": "2019-03-01", "message": "Bye!" ] ], "2019-03-02": [ [ "date": "2019-03-02", "message": "Hi again!" ] ] ]
Awesome.