Can you filter appended text? * Resolved *

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

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

VB Code:

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

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

VB Code:

strFoo = strFoo.SubString(6)