use strict ; use warnings ; use List::Util qw(first) ; my @table = () ; while () { m/^\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*$/ ; push @table, [$1, $2] ; } ; @table = reverse sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] ; } @table ; my @test = (2, 2.69, 2.7, 3.9, 50, 51, 51.1, 200) ; my @ok = (0, 1, 1, 5, 7, 170, 171, 171) ; foreach my $t (@test) { my $r = first { $_->[1] <= $t } @table ; $r = defined($r) ? $r->[0] : 0 ; my $o = shift(@ok) ; printf "%7.3f -> %4d %s\n", $t, $r, $r == $o ? "OK" : "??? expected $o" ; } ; __DATA__ 1 2.69 2 2.97032 3 3.25064 4 3.53096 5 3.81128 6 4.0916 7 4.37192 170 50.98 171 51.086