Check If Strings Is In ListView Items

[smokey2k]

Ok well I hate working with ListView, dont get me wrong its an awesome control and can get us around the file size limitations a normal listbox can handle. However lets be honest the functions of a listbox are allot easier to understand & work with then listview's functions/subs. So I am left wondering how I will pull of this task, basically its comparing a text-based string and checking to see if it lies within ListView's Content(s)/Item(s). Once it finds the item that has the string in it (format for the list it is checking is String:GetData, GetData = Data we need to get and store as string) grab whats to the right of the semi colon in that item (I wrote a function called getLeft/getRight which grabs everything from the left/right of a semicolon) and save it as a string to use later on down the line while sending data.

So my question is how do you go about checking to see if a string is an item within Listview and once it's found set that as a string so program can grab the text to the right of the semi colon : ?