Searching data rows (of a table view)

Given, I’ve got a data source including several entries in rows and cells, is there any way to search (or even filter) these?
Like in: Show me all rows whose cell “name” includes “a”, set a string to the contents of cell “text” of a selected row or count the number of rows, whose cells “a”, “b” and “c” consist of an entry of “1”.
Any help in this topic would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Tassilo