I am looking for some advice on the best way to split up a search field on a web for so I can use the data to search a table in MySQL. Right now the data comes into the script as one string. For example, I have a product in my table that has a Manufacturer of SONY, a Product ID of 12345 and a Description of Color LCD. If my user searches for any of those 3 things individually the product will come up but if the search for SONY Color it will not since it looks for the entire string. Below is the current code I am using. Thanks in advance for any help. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI;
use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

#Create new CGI object
my $cgi = new CGI;

#Connect to DB
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:XXXXX:XXXXX","XXXXX","XXXXX") or die
$DBI::errstr;

#Print html header
print $cgi->header("text/html");

#pull in keyword from form
my $keyword = $cgi->param("keyword");

#prepare statement
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * 
FROM `productTable` 
WHERE `mfg` like '%$keyword%' 
OR `productID` like '%$keyword%' 
OR `desc` like '%$keyword%'") or die;

#execute statement
$sth->execute() or die;

#print results
while (my $rec = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
       print qq(
<table>
<tr>
    <td align="left">$rec->{mfg}</td>
    <td align="left">$rec->{productID}</td>
    <td align="left">$rec->{desc}</td>
</tr>
</table>
            );
}

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