Public Overloads Function Search( _
   ByVal sheetIndex As Integer, _
   ByVal searchString As String, _
   ByVal caseSensitive As Boolean, _
   ByVal exactMatch As Boolean, _
   ByVal alternateSearch As Boolean, _
   ByVal useWildcards As Boolean, _
   ByVal includeCellText As Boolean, _
   ByVal includeNotes As Boolean, _
   ByVal includeTags As Boolean, _
   ByVal startRowIndex As Integer, _
   ByVal startColumnIndex As Integer, _
   ByRef foundRowIndex As Integer, _
   ByRef foundColumnIndex As Integer _
) As String

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Dim instance As FpSpread Dim sheetIndex As Integer Dim searchString As String Dim caseSensitive As Boolean Dim exactMatch As Boolean Dim alternateSearch As Boolean Dim useWildcards As Boolean Dim includeCellText As Boolean Dim includeNotes As Boolean Dim includeTags As Boolean Dim startRowIndex As Integer Dim startColumnIndex As Integer Dim foundRowIndex As Integer Dim foundColumnIndex As Integer Dim value As String   value = instance.Search(sheetIndex, searchString, caseSensitive, exactMatch, alternateSearch, useWildcards, includeCellText, includeNotes, includeTags, startRowIndex, startColumnIndex, foundRowIndex, foundColumnIndex)

public string Search( 
   int sheetIndex,
   string searchString,
   bool caseSensitive,
   bool exactMatch,
   bool alternateSearch,
   bool useWildcards,
   bool includeCellText,
   bool includeNotes,
   bool includeTags,
   int startRowIndex,
   int startColumnIndex,
   ref int foundRowIndex,
   ref int foundColumnIndex
)

Parameters

sheetIndex

Index of sheet on which to search

searchString

String for which to search

caseSensitive

Whether the search considers the case of the letters in the search string

exactMatch

Whether the search considers only an exact match

alternateSearch

Whether the search goes by alternate coordinates of column, row (instead of row, column)

useWildcards

Whether the search considers wildcard characters (*, ?) in the search string

includeCellText

Whether the search includes the content in the cell

includeNotes

Whether the search includes the content in the cell notes

includeTags

Whether the search includes the content in the cell tags or their string representations

startRowIndex

Index of row at which to start

startColumnIndex

Index of column at which to start

foundRowIndex

Index of row at which match is found

foundColumnIndex

Index of column at which match is found

Return Value

Also, the foundRowIndex and foundColumnIndex return the row index and column index of the cell in which the string is found.

This search method is similar to the basic search method but adds the options for whether to search other areas beyond the data in the cells. You can search optionally any or all of the data cells, the cell notes, or the cell tags or any combination. It starts at the cell location specified (with startRowIndex and startColumnIndex) and goes to the end of the sheet until the string match is found.

This search method searches all the cells that contain data that can be represented as a string by the Text property of that cell, and that includes hidden and locked cells.

This search method checks the formatted string, that is the Text in the cell, not the Value.

For a hierarchy of sheets, this method only searches cells in a parent sheet. To search child sheets, you would need to perform a separate search of each child sheet.

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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