Can FindByText use wildcards?

[Theo]

Hi all,

 

I've got a ListBox, TextBox and a Button. I'm searching the ListBox like in the code below:

 

   Private Sub btnZoeken_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnZoeken.Click
       Dim lbItem As ListItem
       Dim strFind As String = txtZoeken.Text
       Dim strFirst As String
       Dim strRest As String

       If strFind <> "" Then
           'Change the first character into UpperCase and the rest into LowerCase.
           strFirst = strFind.Substring(0, 1)
           strRest = strFind.Substring(1)
           strFind = strFirst.ToUpper() + strRest.ToLower

           lbItem = lbWerknemers.Items.FindByText(strFind)

           If IsNothing(lbItem) Then Exit Sub

           'Make sure that the found item is selected.
           lbWerknemers.SelectedValue = lbItem.Value
       End If
   End Sub

 

But now it will only work if you give the full text of an item. Isn't it possible to use some sort of wildcards so I can, for example, find the item 'Theo' by only giving 'Th'?

 

Thanks

[PlausiblyDamp]

IIRC the FindByText is case sensitive and only does matching of entire strings. Probably the easiest method is to loop through the items and compare each string one at a time.