All,
Require your help on this. Following values are stored in the column "description_column" in one of the tables called description_table. The values are
"My name is Robert Jr." and another value is
"Robert is my name." .

So to select "Robert Jr." from the table we issue the following query,
Select * from description_table
where 'Robert Jr.' like '%'+description+'%'

But the query returns both the values "My name is Robert Jr." and "Robert is my name.", though we only want "My name is Robert Jr." to be returned.

Is it possible in PERL to look for the exact match after the query returns both the rows, so only "Robert Jr." is matched and "Robert" is not selected.

Regards

In reply to Exact Match by Anonymous Monk

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