Easy quick hypertalk coding question

[william humphrey]

I forgot to say that it is a converted hypercard stack with thousands of
cards. When in Hypercard I accomplished this by sorting the stack by the
index fld.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:40 AM, william humphrey <shoreagent at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can someone help me with a function?
>
> If sort all cards by fld "index" doesn't work and fld "index" has a bunch
> of numbers in it which aren't in order and skip some values how do I
> 1. Find out what is the highest value in fld "index"?
> 2. Find out a list of any numbers that are duplicates?
>
> I'm afraid that I do to much work of this sort in Excel and I can't think
> of a way to do this without dumping all the values to memory and working on
> them there.
>
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