Easy quick hypertalk coding question

[Mark Swindell]

Does the index field have 1 number per line?  If so, "Sort field 1  
ascending" works here (though it doesn't clear duplicates).


On Apr 14, 2008, at 9:39 AM, william humphrey wrote:

> 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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Thanks,
Mark