How to searc a different field in a database depending on user input

Question

I havea page with witha search form that has a search from and a number of
radio buttons to choose from. The radio buttons have the same name as
particular fields in my database. Ther serach form is shown here.
<form name="searchForm" id="searchForm" method="post" action="search_participants">
      <div>
        <input name="search" type="radio" value="Participant_Name" />
    Participant ID </div>
      <div>
        <input name="search" type="radio" value="First_Name" />
    First name </div>
      <div>
        <input name="search" type="radio" value="Last_Name" />
    Last name </div>
      <div>
        <input name="search" type="radio" value="Details" />
    Details</div>
      <div>
        <input name="search" type="radio" value="Email" />
    E-Mail</div>
      <p class="menu">
        <input name="searchField" type="text" id="searchField" size="20" />
        <input name="Submit" type="submit" id="Submit3" value="Search" />
      </p>
    </form>
PreparedStatement StatementparticipantRecordset = ConnparticipantRecordset.prepareStatement("SELECT User_ID, Participant_ID, Password, First_Name, Last_Name, Details, Email FROM Administration.participant WHERE Participant_ID = '" + searchString + "' ");This code works fine at the mo but how do i replace the particicpant_ID part
with my dynamic searchFor String that I have. I have allreadt tried a few times
but i could not get it to work. Could someone please give me the correct
syntax to do this.
Thanks

Answer 1

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