Search Collection

[NicoleM]

What is the most efficient method to search through a collection? (in this case the dropdownlistbox's item collection) for a PARTIAL match of a string ie
if the collection has 4 items:

1. House
2. Egg
3. Bannana
4. Bat

so If I search for Ba I would like 3 returned as the index and if I search for Bat then I would like 4!
(this particular dropdownlistbox does not have a data source)

Thanks!
Nicole

 

[Korach]

For i As Integer = 0 To lb.Items.Count - 1
If DirectCast(lb.Items(i), String).IndexOf("Ba") <> -1 Then Return i
Next