> Again, if it were me, and I was knowledgable about the specific
> database being used, I'd try to go through and first replace all
> "match everything" wildcard symbols with "match one" wildcard symbols
> to decrease the amount of returned results.
This only complicates the code when I don't care about passwords or
usernames that contain wildcard symbols.
> I don't understand your comment about comparing against only the first
> result. You'd have to compare until you found a match or until you
> were sure that nothing matched.
I don't need to worry about multiple results due to wildcards. I need
to worry about duplicate records in the user database(bug-by-bug
compatibility).
-- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com
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