Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!nsc!voder!apple!dan 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 Lines: 13 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