Can FindByText use wildcards?

[Theo]

Hi all,

Ive got a ListBox, TextBox and a Button. Im 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. Isnt 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.