Brian Dunning's FileMaker Custom Functions

SumXListValues ( numbers ; x ; start )

Sum X values in a list of numbers

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Kris Weyling   Kris Weyling - Show more from this author
Digital Fusion Ltd.
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  Sample input:
SumXListValues (
List ( "1" ; "2" ; "3" ; "4" ; "5" ) ;
4 ;
1
)
  Sample output:
10

  Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

Take a list of numbers, and add/sum all the numbers up to a certain point in the list. Useful for accumulative totals

 

Comments

Bruce   Bruce, Redmond WA
Nov 29, 2016
Description comments appear to be left over from function Prepend List.
 
Kris Weyling   Kris Weyling, Digital Fusion Ltd.
Nov 29, 2016
Thanks for that, copied the header from another function, forgot to change the title :)
 
Tim   Tim, JEAMA
Dec 4, 2016
how would the performance of this compare?

let ( _evstr=substitute( middle values (numbers ; start ; x); "¶"; "+")

;
evaluate( left(_evstr; length(_evstr)-1))

)
 
unix   unix, Japan
Dec 7, 2016
Length of _evstr may be limited ( <10,000 ?)
 

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