match variable with list

i have a variable called cellvalue that i want to match with a list.

my "betaversion" i use today is :
if cellvalue like xx or cellvalue like xy or cellvalue like xz... and so on..
as you might understand this is not a good way of doing it.

if i put all the values in a sheet can i match them without making a loop.
i understand that i can do like:

[VBA]
x=1
while x < LastRow
if cellvalue Like Sheet("List").Range("A" & x).Value Then
...do stuff...
end if
x= x+1
wend
[/VBA]

but loops is not very efficient.
what could i do instead?

I think this is what you mean

[vba]

If Not IsError(Application.Match(cellvalue, Sheet("List").Range("A1").Resize(LastRow),0)) Then
'... do stuff...
End If
[/vba]

its very close to working.

the list im matching agains contains something like:

88.233.2.*
85.97.87.*
85.97.86.*

and cellvalue is complete IPs.
the way it is now it only does exact matches. if i change the 0 to a 1 it seems it matches every smal part of the value.

i want it to do wildcardmatch but not completely wild.