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I think, Barbara has answered my question. I had defined array as Ascend
but did not sort it. But then shouldn't %Lookup search for the element in
complete array? Or because of its binary search it does not do so?

Again thanks.
Deepak

> Deepak Deshpande wrote:
>> ...
>> So I have to %LOOKUP in the array. Here LOOKUP works but %LOOKUP fails.
>> I
>> use %LOOKUP because I want the posn in the array where item is found.
>>
>
> Did you use ASCEND or DESCEND on the array definition?  If you did, and
> the array is not actually sorted, %LOOKUP might not find the value
> because %LOOKUP uses a binary search for ascending or descending arrays.
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