Creating partial word searches in Flash

[FuZzY665]

Sup Guys

I'm trying to create a search function in the site I'm currently building.
It is flash based and all the data is pulled dynamically from XML files.

I've managed to get as far as searching for items, but the whole item name must be used.
What I'm struggling with is how can I search for partial words.

This is the code that does the searching after the XML is loaded.

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//Word entered to search for
var filterValue:String = nameTile.toLowerCase();
//Matching the word against items in the XML
var filteritems:String = xmldata.product.(tile == filterValue);
//Returns if item is found or not
var index:int = filteritems.indexOf(filterValue);
if (index != -1) {
	trace(filteritems);
} else {
	trace("Item not found");
}

Anyone know the best way to do this?

[rustypup]

w a y u w n t d is u e r g ar xpr si ns...

[maxxis]

Ive done this before.

Ill look for the code and upload it.

The module would build words based on the keystrokes and filtered from the xml data collected by the parser.

What do you want to use it for?

[rustypup]

regex quickstart - very helpful site...
regex in CS3...

[FuZzY665]

It's so the user of the site can search for a specific product by name