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Sep 14.2005

hello all,
i i need to prompt a user and ask for some text input (first name) and then have the names held in a (list or an array?) and have them sorted on the order of their input and then printed out on the web page in the order they were typed ino the textbox, how is this done? thanks john

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@BigMoosieSep 14.2005 — <SCRIPT type="text/javascript"><!--
var namesList=[], currentName;

while (true) {
currentName=prompt("Please enter a name", "");
if (!currentName) break;
namesList.push(currentName);
}

document.write(namesList.sort().join("<BR>"));

//--></SCRIPT>
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