# AS3 search engine (dynamic text strings)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-search-engine-dynamic-text-strings/291772>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 5, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-search-engine-dynamic-text-strings/291772 "2009-07-05T06:15:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![icantsurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@icantsurf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/icantsurf)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-search-engine-dynamic-text-strings/291772/1 "2009-07-05T06:15:13Z")

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It searches for text strings then automatically selects those relevent.  
Is there a way to do this, is it hard and I am on my own?  
If I use something like -

search.text == “hmmm”

it wont find things like “poo hmmm” or “hmm” or “hm”