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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: sorting
Message-ID: <13902@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 88 04:06:33 GMT
References: <467@cf-cm.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <467@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>I'd like to sort some text in a field (one item per line). Has anyone out
>there any good suggestions on this? I tried writing the data into a bunch of
>cards, then sorting them, then gathering it back, but not surprisingly, this
>is really slow. Does anyone have a suitable XMCD, or other ideas?
>
>Ralph

Several people have written XCMDs that sort fields.  Gary Bond's book
"XCMD's for HyperCard" has a sortfield command in both C and Pascal.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer