smart searching with combobox excel vb

[oscyes]

hello everybody,

I am here because I am trying to do some userform in order to get some information and paste it to a sheet wich has a template so i can print it with the information i put in the userform.

the thing is that I have some comboboxes where I need to choose an item from a huge list. if I do it by typing in the combobox, it will autocomplete but just with the initial letter, thats not useful enough. i would like to know if is it possible to make a multiple keywords search method in a combobox:

For example if a have the following list:
red car
a car with a red tire
cartoon

then if a type "car" in my combo box, it should show my three items, but if a type "%car%tire%" being "%" the symbol to separete my two keywords, it should show just the item " a car with a red tire"

I hope you can understand what I am trying to explain. it will be very useful for my application to have a search method like that.

thanks in advance

=)

 

[IDS]

It should be possible to do what you want with regular expressions.

See:

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/more-on-regular-expressions/

for some examples with open source code.

Also see the link at the bottom that blog post for more details of working with regular expressions.


Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/