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@pdanford
pdanford / README.md
Last active November 14, 2024 21:13
Launching iTerm2 from macOS Finder

Launching iTerm2 from macOS Finder

(Based on info from Peter Downs' gitub but with modified behavior to open a new terminal window for each invocation instead of reusing an already open window.)

The following three ways to launch an iTerm2 window from Finder have been tested on iTerm2 version 3+ running on macOS Mojave+.

pdanford - April 2020


@DaveWoodCom
DaveWoodCom / String+Email.swift
Last active February 28, 2021 16:45
Swift method to check for a valid email address (uses Apples data detector instead of a regex)
extension String {
func isValidEmail() -> Bool {
guard !self.lowercaseString.hasPrefix("mailto:") else { return false }
guard let emailDetector = try? NSDataDetector(types: NSTextCheckingType.Link.rawValue) else { return false }
let matches = emailDetector.matchesInString(self, options: NSMatchingOptions.Anchored, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: self.characters.count))
guard matches.count == 1 else { return false }
return matches[0].URL?.scheme == "mailto"
}
}