Use of Contains

Question

Hello ....
I am using forms and using one field for user to input data ... depending on this data , i need to fetch the records ...
Enter Info :- Computer science in Aurangabad
Now, i need to search the info which contains any of this words....
my select statement...
select id from data
where contains(info , 'Aurangabad | computer | science ')> 0
This is working Fine ....
But i need to do this runtime .... i.e for any input ....
so , how should i construct the where contains clause....
is there any other way of doing this .... or i should use substr to first seprate the words....
Thanks..

Answer 1

You can replace each ' ' with ' | ' either before passing the variable or after, as shown below. You may also need to remove any leading trailing or double spaces.
select id from data
where contains (info, REPLACE (:entered_info, ' ', ' | ')) > 0;