Excel Match Bug in a sparse range with duplicate keys

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Published on 2010-03-02T11:30:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 21:23 UTC
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Data in TheRange is {1,"",1,"",1,"",1,"",2}

=Match(2, TheRange, 1) returns 9 as expected

=Match(1.5, TheRange, 1) returns 7 as expected

=Match(1, TheRange, 1) returns 5 which is not expected

Anyone come across this ? Anyone got a fix?

Additionally if I use Worksheet.Function.Match in VBA I get more unexpected results.

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