Can you filter appended text? * Resolved *

[jlegan]

Have a what I hope to be easy question.

I have a checked list box that gets appended from some queries against the registry. All of the values that I want to have in this box all start with the word "Windows". However there about 30 other entries that do not start with Windows and I do not want them to be appended to the box. Is there any easy way to filter this data or should I just do something like store it in a variable, trim it to the first 7 chars and before it is written do an IF statement on it?

Thanks for the advice,

Jim

[Slow_Learner]

Not sure what you are asking. If you want only the strings that begin with "Windows", then you would use something like :

If strFoo.StartsWith("Windows") = True Then
    'Do someting
End If

If you want to trim off the "Windows" portion, then use something like:

strFoo = strFoo.SubString(6)