I'm using perl to search a database. It works fine with "and" and "or" searches. I'm trying to get it to work like Google in that if I put quotes around the string, the search has to return that exact string. I'm currently using the following: 
$searchtextterms = $in{'searchtextterms'};
    $origterms = $searchtextterms;
    $escterms = $searchtextterms;
    $escterms =~ s/ /%20/g;
    $searchtextterms =~ s/\'/\\'/g;
    $andor = $in{'andor'};
    $andor = "AND" if ($andor eq "");

    # break searchtextterms on white space to do AND or OR strings
    @words = split (/ /, $searchtextterms);
    $num_words = @words;


$terms_string = "(title Like '%$words[0]%' OR description Like '%$word
+s[0]%' OR organization Like '%$words[0]%' OR type Like '%$words[0]%')
+";
    for ($n=1; $n<=$num_words-1; $n++) {
            $terms_string = $terms_string . " $andor (title Like '%$wo
+rds[0]%' OR description Like '%$words[0]%' OR organization Like '%$wo
+rds[0]%' OR type Like '%$words%')" if ($words[$n] ne "");
    }
    $SQL = "SELECT num FROM database WHERE ($terms_string)";

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I just need to know how to do an if $searchtextterms are between quotes, do a query on the whole phrase. Thanks.

In reply to Help with search query by htmanning

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