Rewriting a Access SQL-query to get it working in JDBC?!

Question

The following select-query works for me in Access:
SELECT * FROM aWoord WHERE Woord LIKE 'a[!f,p][!n][a-z][a-z][a-z]';
aWoord contains 6-letter woords starting with a.
But when I use this in
Driver driver = new JdbcOdbcDriver();
Properties info = new Properties();
String url = "jdbc:odbc:" + dsn;
con = driver.connect(url,info);
if (con != null)
stmt = con.createStatement();
And then
ResultSet res = stmt.executeQuery(sql);
In which sql is the above Access SQL string. It doesn't produce any results! I know the problem lies in the "Like-part" can't I use [!p] in JDBC?! Or should I use a different notation?
Stijn.

Answer 1

My connection is ok, because I can get results if I use a "simple statement" like:
"SELECT * FROM aWoord;"
This gives me the total content of the table aWoord.
But when I use the statement mentioned above it doesn't work.
This also doesn't work:
"SELECT * FROM aWoord WHERE Woord LIKE '*';"
I have to use the following:
"SELECT * FROM aWoord WHERE Woord LIKE '%';"
I know * is a wildcard for DAO and % for ADO but the database is an Access database thus DAO or not!?
Stijn.