[SOLVED] How to perform the same method on outlets that have similar names instead of writing out very similar lines 10s of times?

How to perform the same method on outlets that have similar names instead of writing out very similar lines 10s of times?

I have these outlets...

@IBOutlet weak var pill1: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill2: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill3: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill4: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill5: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill6: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill7: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill8: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill9: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet weak var pill10: UIImageView!

I need to hide all of them in the 'viewDidLoad' function. For example...

self.pill1.isHidden = true
self.pill2.isHidden = true
self.pill3.isHidden = true
etc... 
etc....all the way to...
self.pill10.isHidden = true

But instead of writing repetitive lines 10s of times that are very similar, how do I use a 'for loop', or whatever is needed, to make it more cleaner.

For example,

for index in 1...10 {

   pill(insert index here somehow).isHidden = true

}

I tried a few different ways, but I was getting errors with string types etc. I am new to this all. Any help appreciated. thank you

Solution

You can put the views into an array like this:

for pill in [pill1, pill2, pill3, pill4, pill5, pill6, pill7, pill8, pill9, pill10] {
    pill.isHidden = true
}

You could consider using an @IBOutlet collection. In that case, all of your outlets would be wired to the same collection (array) variable:

@IBOutlet var pills: [UIImageView]!

for pill in pills {
    pill.isHidden = true
}