function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

[J. Landman Gay]

Oops, I missed that. You're right. 

On October 12, 2015 8:35:04 AM CDT, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>Jacque,
>
>
>My gadget adds the index in a parameter to the function. if it already
>exists in the list, the addition is superfluous, but harmless.
>
>
>Craig
>
>
>
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>From: J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
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>Sent: Mon, Oct 12, 2015 12:07 am
>Subject: Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to
>a value
>
>
>On 10/11/2015 9:26 PM, dunbarx at aol.com 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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