Hi,

After loading the data combo control with a list of values from a database, I'd like the data combo to performs for me a "best mach search" according to the characters I type into the text box of it and automatically to fill the text box of it , if a value found, with the value that is found.

Any help would be appreciated
Cheers
Daniel

my guess is that you load the content of the text box into a string, then code it up to read the string letter by letter with the contents of the list of values.

i don't have the code here, but the idea would be to check value per value with comparison to the string in the text, then move to the next if the next letter of each string become unequal.

if you do find a perfect match early in the sequence, you'd still have to write code to save that value in a variable, then proceed with the other values, until you have checked all of them, just so that you have accuracy, in the sense that you maight have two ro three perfect matches, because you did check the whole list.

don't stop when you find a perfect match...
loop through all the contents of the list..

was that clear?

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