Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!bunny!jwg1
From: jwg1@bunny.UUCP (James W. Gish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: efficient cardExists function
Message-ID: <5888@bunny.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 19:42:18 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
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I need a function, cardExists( cardName ), that will return true iff 
a card of name cardName exists in the stack.  

So far, the only thing I could come up with is a repulsively slow 
linear search that compares cardName with the name of each card in
the stack.


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Jim Gish
GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA
CSNET: jgish@gte.com    UUCP:  ..!harvard!bunny!jwg1