REGEXP for search engine/SQL Server

I'm having a bit of difficulty getting my REGEXP right for my search engine. I'm hoping someone has done this already--it is actually a rather simple problem but I suck at regexps . . . problem: need to concatinate a query string with like '%searchterm%' from a list of words from a webform, but also need to identify "quoted terms" which should not have wildcards infront/behind them. so the result for a search query of this is "my search" term set should end up: SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE keywords LIKE '%this%' OR keywords LIKE '%is%' OR keywords LIKE 'my search' OR keywords LIKE '%term%' OR keywords LIKE '%set%' so the quoted term doesn't have the wildcards in front/behind. I'm using preg_split to cut the words using a \s space character presently--I haven't yet implemented containing "quoted terms". I'm unsure how to keep the "quoted terms" together yet split the other words apart. I'm guessing someone has done this on the list. .. thanks Kevin Won ------------------------------------------------------------- ITG Web Developer, Systems Administrator Oregon Health Sciences University (503) 418-4282 cell: (503) 913-5367 page: x15897 fax: (503) 494-1888