Could it be something like this ?

where at(word1,field) > 0 AND at(word2,field) > 0 AND at(word3,field) > 0
(of course, this after you divide 'cDesc' into its composing words)

Pedro


>Supposing I have a string variable cDesc = "VIBR CHOL BIOV" and will use this as reference to retrieve all records with descriptions containing any of the 3 words in any order. If description field contains "Cholera due to Vibrio cholerae 01, biovar cholerae" or "Cholera due to Vibrio cholerae 01, biovar eltor", these records should be included in the resultset.
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>Where description = "%"+cDesc+"%" clause is not sufficient to do the above problem.
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>Any inputs are highly appreciated!
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>TIA