im making a program which it asks you a question and you give it an answer. How to make this work well, ive made the answers very small. example...

Q: What is the fundametal particle that protons are made of?

A: Quarks

Thats what my database looks like anyway (RowID, Question,Answer). Now im using Microsoft Access as my database, which isnt ideal but i have to live with it, i want to query the database so in the answer field i could say...

The funcdamental particle is called a quark, Bob!

And it would see the word quark, match it in the database, and find the rest of the data irrelevant (because it is!)

My answercolumn is called answer, and this is one example of what i have tried...

SELECT * FROM Grade_Theory WHERE *Answer* LIKE 'The funcdamental particle is called a quark, Bob!'

OR

SELECT * FROM Grade_Theory WHERE 'The funcdamental particle is called a quark, Bob!' LIKE *Answer*

However none of this works, i get an "missing expected operator" error.

I hop ei have worded the question well enough :P

Thanks!

In reply to Wildcards, SQL and Perl by Anonymous Monk

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