newb question: ... LIKE "%somestring%" fails

"Edgar Meij" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hello everyone,

 

I'm trying to get a query going which contains a percentage mark (in
conjunction with the sql LIKE operator). Perl doesn't seem to like this in a
string (containing my query) however. Does anyone know how to circumvent or
solve this?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Edgar Meij
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