Checkboxes to search Database

Question

Hello all
I was wondering if you could help me with a problem I am having with using multiple checkboxes to search an oracle database. I have already set up a form which allows users to enter a number of parameters to the search the database but I also want to include 11 checkboxes which will allow the users to select records for one or more cities, so if 3 cities are selected only the records for those 3 cities are displayed.
All the checkboxes have the same name but the values are set to the names of the cities. I am using the following code to get the rest of the search fields out of the database so need to try to incorporate the values from the checkboxes somehow.
Any help will be greatfully received.
Thanks in advance.
rs = GetResultSet("SELECT * FROM Function where Name like '%" + request.getParameter("Name") + "%' AND Type like '%" + request.getParameter("Type") + "%' AND Description like '%" + request.getParameter("Description") + "%' AND ApplCode like '%" + request.getParameter("ApplCode") + "%' AND Scobol like '%" + request.getParameter("Scobol") + "%' AND Class like '%" + request.getParameter("Class") + "%' AND Options like '%" + request.getParameter("Options") + "%' AND TMF like '%" + request.getParameter("TMF") + "%' AND Display like '%" + request.getParameter("Display") + "%' AND WKS like '%" + request.getParameter("WKS") + "%' AND SQLNotify like '%" + request.getParameter("SQLNotify") + "%' AND Oper like '%" + request.getParameter("Oper") + "%' AND UDate>=" + ConvertDate2(request.getParameter("StartDate")) + " AND UDate <=" + ConvertDate2(request.getParameter("EndDate")) + "ORDER by Name ASC");

Answer 1

The following solved this, for anyone who may have a similar problem;
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer("val1^val2^val3^","^");
String sValue = "",sVAL;
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
sVAL = st.nextToken();
if (request.getParameter("Value" + sVAL) != null) sValue += (" Value='" + sVAL + "' OR ");
if (sValue.length() > 0) sSQL += (" AND (" + ChopOff(sValue,3) + ")");