Search for Text within a Cell

I feel like this should be simply but I've been staring at my Event Editor for ages and my mind's starting to blank out.

Basically, I have an Edit Box object which the user can type words into. When a word is input and the user presses "Enter", a fastloop begins which searches for the input word within a specific column of a DataGrid object and then returns the text contained within the adjacent column. This has been tried and tested and works perfectly fine.

My problem is that, for the sake of efficiency and to cut out a lot of monotonous work, I'd like the fastloop search to search for text within the cell, rather than look for a cell with an exact match of the input text.

For example, currently the user types in "hello" and the fastloop searches for a cell within column 2 which contains exactly the text "hello". I'd like the user to search "hello" and the loop to find the text "hello" within a cell that contains the text "hello; hi; hey".

My current, very basic, formula:

+ Upon pressing "Enter"
- Special: Start loop "search" NLines("DataGrid") times


+ On loop "search"
+ Alterable String A of Edit Box = Text$("DataGrid", LoopIndex("search"), 2)
- Rich Edit Object: Append 'Alterable String A("Edit Box") + NewLine$' to text
- Rich Edit Object: Append 'Text$("DataGrid", LoopIndex("search"), 3) + NewLine$ + NewLine$' to text

Sorry if none of this makes any sense, I'm very tired

Wowo, I could cry, thank you!

I was on the right lines with the find function I was just trying to find a stupid way of inputting it, like an idiot, rather than using the "Compare two general values" event...

One little issue I'm now having: the player could potentially input "ell" or "e" and this would result in the same outcome as inputting "hello". I can slightly remedy this by amending the "Enter string to look for" by adding '+";"' but the player can still input the the ending of any words and get the same outcome (e.g. "ello" or "o").

I need to make it so that the full word must be found, not just a segment of the word, is there a function for this?

Yep, thank you very much. I'm gonna call it a day here because I'm missing blatantly obvious answers to my problems