Searching a variable

Hi there everyone, Thanks for all the help recently everyone, it's very appreciated. I just have one last question if that's ok :-) I have a string taken from a form, now this string could contain 1 word or it would contain 10, what I need to know is how do I search a DB for each word in the string? I have a simple search engine which works great for works next to each other in the DB but I need it to search each entry for ALL words entered, whether they are next to each other in the DB or 3 words apart, how can I do this? Thanks for all your help. Regards Chris Payne www.planetoxygene.com