On 10/11/2015 9:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:
function findItemLessThanIndex tData,tIndex
    put comma & tIndex after tData
    sort items of tData numeric
    return  item itemOffset("5",tData) -1 of tData
end findItemLessThanIndex

I thought of that too, but it fails if tIndex isn't in the list. The example list was: "1,3,4,7,9" and the target limit was 5.

I couldn't see a way that avoids looping through all the values.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     [email protected]
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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