Hi
I was having so much fun trying to learn how to do it as Eric outlined it
that I forgot to go back and check the original sort. It turn out that the
reason the original sort wasn't working.
"sort cards by field index" --- the one line of code
was because it needed to say "sort cards numeric b
Hi,
Right, that's why I started with asking for the script. It ought to be
a simple mistake.
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
--
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
http://economy-x-talk.com
http://www.salery.biz
A large collection of scripts for HyperCard, Revolution, SuperC
william humphrey wrote:
Eric
THANKS A BUNCH!
This is just what I needed as there are many cards each with an index field
with a number in it. I should have been more specific but I was bamboozled
that we couldn't just "sort the cards by fld x" like in hypercard.
Actually, you can. I haven't b
Eric
THANKS A BUNCH!
This is just what I needed as there are many cards each with an index field
with a number in it. I should have been more specific but I was bamboozled
that we couldn't just "sort the cards by fld x" like in hypercard.
I am doing this to collect data from legacy hypercard sta
William
Is fld "index" just one field containing all the numbers you want to
sort? If so, what is the item delimiter - is it comma or return or
something else?
If it's comma, the function
max(fld "myIndexField")
will tell you the largest number in the field. If the delimiter isn't
comma
Bonjour William,
Le 14 avr. 08 à 18:39, william humphrey a écrit :
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
<[EMAIL PROTECT
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 accomplishe
William,
What's your script?
Btw, what happened to your website?
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
--
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
http://economy-x-talk.com
http://www.salery.biz
A large collection of scripts for HyperCard, Revolution, SuperCard and
other programming la
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Can someone help me with a function?
>
> If sort all cards by
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 afra
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