RE: Problem using tlookup bif

It looks to me like %TLOOKUPxx uses a binary search, as %lookupxx does.

"Since a binary search is used by the %LOOKUPxx built-in functions for
a
sequenced array, and the correct function of a binary search depends on
the data being in order, the search may only look at a few elements of
the array. When the array is out of order, the result of a binary
search
is unpredictable. "


On 12/16/2010 10:23 AM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

The manual refers to both kinds of lookups. The kind that David is

using is

not of the %TLOOKUPxx set, the nearest I can determine. The %TLOOKUP

BIF

works by comparing each value starting with 1 and ending when a match

is

found or the end of the table is reached. Sequence is immaterial.

Or at

least that's the way it was the first 35 years or so of the language.

Dennis Lovelady
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