Question

I am searching my listview from a specified index and returning the first result(the index the item is on) of the word. It works good except I can only search the first column in the listview. How can I search only the second column?

Private Function FindLogic(ByVal LV As ListView, ByVal CIndex As Integer, ByVal SearchFor As String) As Integer
Dim idx As Integer
Dim It = From i In LV.Items Where i.index > CIndex And i.Text = SearchFor
If It.Count > 0 Then
    idx = It(0).Index
Else
    idx = -1
End If
Return idx
End Function

Answer 1

I have figured it out. This solution allows you to choose a specified index to begin the search from and checks the column with and index of 1.(Which is usually your second column)

    Private Function FindLogic(ByVal LV As ListView, ByVal CIndex As Integer, ByVal SearchFor As String) As Integer
    Dim idx As Integer
    Dim It = From i In LV.Items Where i.index > CIndex And i.SubItems(1).Text = SearchFor
    If It.Count > 0 Then
        idx = It(0).Index
    Else
        idx = -1
    End If
    Return idx
    End Function

You could also add another parameter into the function so you could choose a different column to check for the string, like this:

    Private Function FindLogic(ByVal LV As ListView, ByVal CIndex As Integer, ByVal Column As Integer, ByVal SearchFor As String) As Integer
    Dim idx As Integer
    Dim It = From i In LV.Items Where i.index > CIndex And i.SubItems(Column).Text = SearchFor
    If It.Count > 0 Then
        idx = It(0).Index
    Else
        idx = -1
    End If
    Return idx
    End Function

To use this function, it would look like this:

     FindLogic(Listview1, 1, 1, "Dog")

You could also have it search from a selected item like this:

     FindLogic(Listview1, 1, LV.SelectedIndices(0), "Dog")