Ok I would differ between the displayed highscore and the internal highscore which is sorted etc.

The displayed-highscore would be made just out of one string array aka. text object.

Example for a highscore with ten entries:
Code:

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text highscore_display
{
  pos_x = x;
  pos_y = y;
  layer = z;
  font = my_font;
  strings = 10;
}

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The interal highscore would consist out of a string array and a numeric array:
Code:

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var hs_points[10];
text hs_names  { strings = 10; }

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What you save on the harddisk: the point array and the name strings:
Code:

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function save_highscore
{
  var i = 0;
  var fhandle_1;
  var fhandle_2;

  fhandle_1 = file_open_write("hs_points.txt");
  fhandle_2 = file_open_write("hs_names.txt");
  while(i < 10)
  {
    file_var_write(fhandle_1,hs_points[i]);
    file_str_write(fhandle_2,hs_names.string[i]);
    i += 1;
  }
  file_close(fhandle_1);
  file_close(fhandle_2);
}

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Loading works the same way but with file_var/str_read

Sorting the highscore:
This happens when you add a new highscore entry.
Basicly you have to compare the new entry value with the current entry values and then have to do a copying down, so that the last entry drops out of the list, or the entry does not get in, because its value is < the lowest highscore entry.
Ok, so lets do a simple function for this:
Code:

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function hs_add_entry(_value,_name)
{
  var i = 0;
  var k = 1;
  
  while(k)
  {
    if(hs_points[i] < _value || i = 9) 
    { 
      k = 0; 
    }
    else { i+= 1; }
  }
  //Now we know where to place the new entry in the list
  //But we first have to scroll the other entrys to the bottom
  k = 9;
  while(k > i)
  {
    hs_points[k] = hs_points[k-1];
    str_cpy(hs_names.string[k],hs_names.string[k-1]);
    k -= 1;
  }
  hs_points[i] = _value;
  str_cpy(hs_names.string[i],_name);
}

//How to call the function:
hs_add_entry(var,string);

example:
hs_add_entry(999,"Fiskekona");

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Ok now the displaying of the highscore:
This function will make a string out of the interal arrays and save it to that text object which you then can display:
Code:

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string temp1_str;
string entry_str;

function hs_show()
{
  var i = 0;
  while(i < 10)
  {
    str_for_num(entry_str,i+1);
    str_cat(entry_str,". ");
    str_cat(entry_str,hs_names.string[i]);
    str_for_num(temp1_str,hs_points[i]);
    str_cat(entry_str," ");
    str_cat(entry_str,temp1_str);
    
    i += 1;
  }
}

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NOTE: None of this code has been tested by me, I wrote it all of my head how it _could_ work. No gurantee that it will.
But this should give you a slight idea how you could handle a highscore system.