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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to make the autocomplete work on a list of items entered into a textbox separated by semicolons. I have a list of authors the user can choose from and it autocompletes as they type the name no problem, but what I'd like to do is after the user types a name followed by a semicolon, the autocomplete works on the next name and so on.

e.g., Smith, John; Eastwood, Clint

Any suggestions?
cheers
Harry

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Every time the user hits ; you could add the specified name of the author to a list and clear the textBox.

i.e.
If keyPressed = ";" then
AuthorList.Add(txtBox.Text)
txtBox.Text = ""
End If

You could also tell autocomplete to start over at specified substring where the starting index of the substring is the index of ";" + 1 in the textbox...

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