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

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Geoff.


I find this slower than the sort method. By about 30%.


Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 12, 2015 9:11 pm
Subject: Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value


Not quite as concise, but this function is about 3x faster:

function
greatestLessThan pList,V
   put empty into R
   repeat for each item i in
pList
      if i < V and i > R then put i into R
   end repeat
   return
R
end
greatestLessThan
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