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Subject: Re: [office-formula] MATCH function
Hi Robert, On Friday, 2008-01-18 11:29:29 -0500, Robert Weir wrote: > I checked the OOXML specification -- it does not define the behavior in > the presence of duplicate entries. > > So if the apparent behavior of Excel appears reasonable, I agree with > documenting that. It is probably related to what functions like [HV]LOOKUP do when used on a sorted range, e.g. the last element <= query is picked if sorted ascending. /me notes that we did not document that but mention that in case there would be more than one consecutive match, the result returned would be arbitarily picked out of those, but that isn't true. The last match is returned. At least that's what I found out when implementing these functions, and it somewhat makes sense. I'll add details to the spec for [HV]LOOKUP as well. Of course ECMA/MOOXML didn't document it either. Eike -- Automatic string conversions considered dangerous. They are the GOTO statements of spreadsheets. --Robert Weir on the OpenDocument formula subcommittee's list.
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