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From: pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Sorting in HC
Message-ID: <1032@orbit.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 89 01:25:08 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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While the thread is on sorting, I'll ask a question that has come up (and
yielded some nice scripts; Thanks!) before.
  Will there, in the future, be a SORT command in Hypercard that will deal
with containers?  Or, better yet, is there an XCMD that exists now that will
do a container sort?  I know of a few that do straight alpha sorts, but what I
want/need is an INTELLIGENT setup in which I can say "sort bg field 'this n
that' by last item" or "sort descending field 'myList' by item 3".
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