'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 startRowIndex As Integer, _
   ByVal startColumnIndex As Integer, _
   ByRef foundRowIndex As Integer, _
   ByRef foundColumnIndex As Integer _
) As String

'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 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, startRowIndex, startColumnIndex, foundRowIndex, foundColumnIndex)

public string Search( 
   int sheetIndex,
   string searchString,
   bool caseSensitive,
   bool exactMatch,
   bool alternateSearch,
   bool useWildcards,
   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

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

This search method starts at the cell location specified (with startRowIndex and startColumnIndex) and goes to the end of the sheet until the cell is found that contains the search string. This is the most basic of the search methods.

This search method has these qualifications:

• 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
• Only checks the formatted string, that is the Text in the cell, not the Value
• Only searches the cells in the data area, not the headers
• Only searches the specified cells in one sheet
• Cell notes and cell tags are not searched

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.

This method is for backward compatibility with previous versions that could not search headers, notes, and tags. If you are searching these, you may use the other Search methods that return both the search found flag (SearchFoundFlag) as well as the cell location.

Reference

FpSpread Class
FpSpread Members
Overload List