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From: kamins@kumr.lns.com (Scot Kamins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard sorting
Keywords: HyperCard, sorting
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.060918.2836@kumr.lns.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 06:09:18 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.214301.938@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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>how do I sort by more than one field.

HyperCard's sort is stable, so you can sort by both primary and secondary
criteria. The following example produces a stack sorted alphabetically by county
with cities sorted alphabeticaly within counties:

on mouseUp
  sort by field "city"
  sort by field "county"
end mouseup

Hope this helps..

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