# Please tell me how to make a highscore list?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-tell-me-how-to-make-a-highscore-list/257479>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [April 14, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-tell-me-how-to-make-a-highscore-list/257479 "2008-04-14T16:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![bluemagica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@bluemagica](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bluemagica)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-tell-me-how-to-make-a-highscore-list/257479/1 "2008-04-14T16:56:00Z")

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Well, i need to make a highscore list, but i need to make it using textfiles! but since i am very new at programming i cant figure out how to sort the the list…i want to sort the list within flash, but how do i make it so that the names and the scores get sorted together? currently i am thinking of somehow using sortOn on the array generated using “split”…but since the information resides on a external text file, therefore this method might be very slow in practice, and especially when my target viewers are dial-up users. So what do you guys suggest?