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From: nestor@iitmax.IIT.EDU (John Nestor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Testing card existence by name
Message-ID: <2064@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 89 17:44:13 GMT
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Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
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I would like to test whether a card of a given name exists in a stack
using hypertalk.  There must be an easy way to do this, but I sure can't
find anything.  My current hack is to do a linear search of the cards in
the stack, but this is painfully slow.  Have I overlooked a better way?
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John A. Nestor				UUCP: ...spl1!iitmax!nestor
ECE Department				BITNET: EENESTOR@IITVAX
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616			(312) 567-3386