wild card search

[Chas17]

a user enters a string in a text box on a form, presses a cmd button to start a search. the string fom the texr box is placed in
Range("SearchInput") example string 2JRCEPV0100E**VALVEX

I then run the sub below to copy all matching entries to a different range.

Sub SearchE()
NN = Range("NextTN").Value 'number of entries in first range copied from

SI = Range("SearchInput")
z = 2

For x = 1 To NN
If Cells(x, 4) = SI Then
For y = 1 To 9
Cells(z, y + 26) = Cells(x, y)
Next y
z = z + 1
End If
Next x

End Sub

Of course only exact matches copy. How would I write it so the user could use a wild card, so they could enter say 2JRCEPV0100E% (if % was the wild card)?

thanks,
Chas

 

[acw]

Hi

There are a couple of ways of doing this.

1) If you only put in the first part of the searchstring (say 2JRCEPV0100E) then you could do something like

If left(Cells(x, 4),1,len(SI)) = SI Then where you just match on the first number of characters.

2) Another option is to use the Find facility. This will enable you to use the wildcards. Sample code to use the find
Set c = Range("a1:a7").Find(what:="2jrcepv0100e*")
firstaddr = c.Address
MsgBox c
Set c = Range("a1:a7").FindNext(c)
While c.Address <> firstaddr
MsgBox c
Set c = Range("a1:a7").FindNext(c)

Wend
This will cycle through all the entries that match. You can then manipulate as required.


HTH

Tony

 

[Chas17]

Thanks, works fine