Question

List Comprehension is a very useful code mechanism that is found in several languages, such as Haskell, Python, and Ruby (just to name a few off the top of my head). I’m familiar with the construct.

I find myself working on an Open Office Spreadsheet and I need to do something fairly common: I want to count all of the values in a range of cells that fall between a high and low bounds. I instantly thought that list comprehension would do the trick, but I can’t find anything analogous in Open Office. There is a function called ‘COUNTIF’, and it something similar, but not quite what I need.

Is there a construct in Open Office that could be used for list comprehension?

Answer 1

CountIf can count values equal to one chosen. Unfortunately it seems that there is no good candidate for such function. Alternatively you can use additional column with If to display 1 or 0 if the value fits in range or not accordingly:

=If(AND({list_cell}>=MinVal; {list_cell}<=MaxVal); 1; 0) 

Then only thing left is to sum up this additional column.