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DHTMLXGrid - dropdown filter using "wildcards" ?

Hi there,
is it possible to make a dropdown filter box in DHTMLXGrid to search with a kind of "wildcard" like "*" or "%" in the cell?
I mean like this:

dropdown filter with items "CAR", "BUS", "BIKE" ....

By selecting one of those filter options, the cells would be filtered with a kind of "wildcard", like for example selecting "CAR" would also filter the cell containing "MYCAR" or "CAR99" or "MYCAR99"

Thanks for your support!

Built in #select_filter can't work in such mode , but you can create custom control with such functionality

<select onchange="mygrid.filterBy(1,this.value);">
    <option value="CAR">CAR</option>
    <option value="BUS">BUS</option>
    <option value="BIKE">BIKE</option>
</select>

where 1 - index of column to which filter will be applied

Hi,
thanks for your good and quick response.
This is working fine so far.
But is it also possible to "combine" two of those filters, which means that I select one item in dropdown filter column A and after that I select another item in dropdown filter column B. The filter of column B should only run on the before selected items of the filter in column A. Is this possible?

Yes, it possible.
Code will be siimilar to next

<select id="selectA" onchange="filter();">
....
<select id="selectB" onchange="filter();">
....

function filter(){
    mygrid.filterBy(1,document.getElementById('selectA'));
    mygrid.filterBy(2,document.getElementById('selectB'),true);
}

The true as 3rd parameter of filterBy says that command must filter agains previously filtered set instead of filtering against original set.