Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!brunix!eilat!man
From: man@eilat.cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Using FIND in scripts
Message-ID: <33410@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 22:00:45 GMT
References: <9223@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <3118@oakhill.UUCP> <39677@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <39677@apple.Apple.COM>, baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum) writes:
|>>In article <3118@oakhill.UUCP> tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson) writes:
|>The problem: 'find' will find text in a field that was specifically not
|>asked for.
|>
|>The reason: the card field name is translated to a card field number.
It found 
|>text in the field with the same number, even though it had a different name.
|>
|>This is something to watch out for if you 'find' in card fields (since every
|>card might have different ones), or even in background fields when there is
|>more than one background.

Does this hold for the command
  sort by bg fld "Bletch"
too?

	--Mark