'Declaration
 
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 includeNotes As Boolean, _
   ByVal includeTags As Boolean, _
   ByVal startRowIndex As Integer, _
   ByVal startColumnIndex As Integer, _
   ByVal endRowIndex As Integer, _
   ByVal endColumnIndex As Integer, _
   ByRef foundRowIndex As Integer, _
   ByRef foundColumnIndex As Integer _
) As SearchFoundFlags

'Usage
 
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 includeNotes As Boolean
Dim includeTags As Boolean
Dim startRowIndex As Integer
Dim startColumnIndex As Integer
Dim endRowIndex As Integer
Dim endColumnIndex As Integer
Dim foundRowIndex As Integer
Dim foundColumnIndex As Integer
Dim value As SearchFoundFlags
 
value = instance.Search(sheetIndex, searchString, caseSensitive, exactMatch, alternateSearch, useWildcards, includeNotes, includeTags, startRowIndex, startColumnIndex, endRowIndex, endColumnIndex, foundRowIndex, foundColumnIndex)

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

Parameters

sheetIndex

Sheet index 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

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

Row index at which to start

startColumnIndex

Column index at which to start

endRowIndex

Row index at which to end

endColumnIndex

Column index at which to end

foundRowIndex

Row index at which match is found

foundColumnIndex

Column index at which match is found

Return Value

The more recently added search methods return a SearchFoundFlag, and not simply a text string, because the search match might be found in the cell notes or the cell tags. This search method always searches the data cells. You also optionally can search the cell notes and tags. It starts at the cell location specified (with startRowIndex and startColumnIndex) and goes to the specified end (endRowIndex and endRowIndex) until the string match is found.

Reference

FpSpread Class
FpSpread Members
Overload List