Remove an item from a combo box based on the first letter

[Vedj3]

I am stuck on Visual Basic problem regarding combo boxes. The question states:

Assume that the Simple combo box appears as shown and that the Sorted property is set to True. Give a statement or statements that will carry out the stated task.

The combo box contains:

Dante
Goethe
Moliere
Shakespeare

Delete every item beginning with the letter M. (The code should do the job even if additional items were added to the list.)

I tried just to get it to search first. This code does that, but it only searches the combo box for soley the letter M. Since I don't know how to delete the name from the combo box once it is found, I just put message boxes there. Is there a line of code that would delete the item once it was found? How do I have it search and then delete an item based on its first letter?

Private Sub btnM_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnM.Click
        Dim found As Boolean = False
        For i As Integer = 0 To cboBox.Items.Count - 1
            If (cboBox.Items.Contains("M")) Then
                found = True
            End If
        Next
        If found Then
            MsgBox("M is in the list.")
        Else
            MsgBox("M not found.")
        End If
    End Sub

[Jx_Man]

see this code :
add this code to Module :

Module Module1
    Public Sub AutoComplete(ByVal cbo As ComboBox, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs)
        Dim iIndex As Integer
        Dim sActual As String
        Dim sFound As String
        Dim bMatchFound As Boolean

        If Not cbo.Text = "" Then 'if the text is not blank then only proceed

            If e.KeyCode = Keys.Back Then
                cbo.Text = Mid(cbo.Text, 1, Len(cbo.Text) - 1)
            End If

            If ((e.KeyCode = Keys.Left) Or _
             (e.KeyCode = Keys.Right) Or _
             (e.KeyCode = Keys.Up) Or _
             (e.KeyCode = Keys.Down) Or _
             (e.KeyCode = Keys.PageUp) Or _
             (e.KeyCode = Keys.PageDown) Or _
             (e.KeyCode = Keys.Home) Or _
             (e.KeyCode = Keys.End)) Then
                Return
            End If


            Do

                sActual = cbo.Text

                iIndex = cbo.FindString(sActual)
                If (iIndex > -1) Then '** FOUND SECTION **

                    sFound = cbo.Items(iIndex).ToString()
                    ' Select this item from the list.

                    cbo.SelectedIndex = iIndex
                    cbo.SelectionStart = sActual.Length
                    cbo.SelectionLength = sFound.Length
                    bMatchFound = True
                Else '** NOT FOUND SECTION **

                    If sActual.Length = 1 Or sActual.Length = 0 Then
                        cbo.SelectedIndex = 0
                        cbo.SelectionStart = 0
                        cbo.SelectionLength = Len(cbo.Text)
                        bMatchFound = True

                    Else
                        cbo.SelectionStart = sActual.Length - 1
                        cbo.SelectionLength = sActual.Length - 1
                        cbo.Text = Mid(cbo.Text, 1, Len(cbo.Text) - 1)
                    End If

                End If

            Loop Until bMatchFound

        End If

    End Sub
End Module

Add this code to form :

Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        With ComboBox1.Items
            .Add("Jery")
            .Add("Victor")
            .Add("fitri")
            .Add("Sari")
            .Add("Dewi")
            .Add("Denok")
        End With

    End Sub

    Private Sub ComboBox1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles ComboBox1.KeyDown
        Call AutoComplete(ComboBox1, e)
    End Sub

run the program. when you input 'S' in combo box then press down Arrow key it will automatically display "Sari"

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