Hi monks, I am using the perl DBI module to query a mysql database. I want to be able to select any results which contain a keyword (e.g. not necessarily exact hits) and wondered how to do this?

This is the sort of thing I have: 

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{SELECT * FROM Prediction WHERE Prediction_i
+d = '$keyword' OR Target_id = '$keyword' Use = '$keyword'  });       
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$sth->execute()
        or die "Couldn't execute statement: " . $sth->errstr;         
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my @new_array;                                                        
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while (my $ary_ref = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref() )        {
        my $delim = "\n";
        for (my $i=0; $i<@{$ary_ref}; $i++)     {
        push @new_array, "$ary_ref->[$i]\n";
        }
        print "\n";
}                                                                     
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print @new_array;

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How can I alter this so that it doesn't just match exact hits?

Thanks

Retitled by davido.

In reply to Performing queries with DBI and DBD::MySQL by Anonymous Monk

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