Finding wildcards with instr?

[wackywoo105]

I'm trying to find a sting like "AFE43542" within a web page html with instr. The string will always be of the format [a-z][a-z][a-z]#####.

I've used

"[a-z][a-z][a-z]#####"

and

"???#####"

Istr never finds the match.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Mike Krailo]

Maybe look into regular expressions HERE.

[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]

 

[theDBguy]

Not sure that InStr() is capable of using wildcards.

InStr function (Visual Basic for Applications)

Office VBA reference topic

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You might try using the Like operator instead.

Like operator

Office VBA reference topic

learn.microsoft.com

 

[wackywoo105]

Thanks. I knew I was having another brain freeze moment

Me.EdgeBrowser0.RetrieveJavascriptValue("document.documentElement.innerHTML") Like "*[a-z][a-z][a-z]#####*"