Since you're dealing with integers, you could run each line of list 1 through a function like
function numberSeries x,y -- returns space-delimited list of all integers from x to y to build an expanded version of list 1 that explicitly lists all possible matching numbers in each range. Then send each item n in list 2 to a function: function whichRange n,expandedList set wholeMatches to true get wordOffset(n,expandedList) if it = 0 then return 0 return the number of lines in word 1 to it of expandedList I suspect this will be faster than running each of your 2000 numbers through a series of comparisons. David Epstein > >I have 2 lists. I need to check whether the values of list 2 fall within the > >range of the values of list 1. eg. > > > >list 1 > >1 10 > >20 25 > >45 55 > > > >list 2 > >1,3,12,23,34,45,52,78 > > > >List 1 may have up to 60 different ranges, one range per line. > >List 2 may have over 2000 items. (these are line numbers of a text database) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
