in reply to Wildcards, SQL and Perl
what about just getting the answer and then test with a regexp (or plain index) if the answer of the database is included in the answer of the user
SELECT * FROM Grade_Theory WHERE *Question* = 'The funcdamental partic +le is called a quark, Bob!' # now out the answer in the var $answer if($user_answer =~ !$answer!) { # okay }
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