It sounds like you are referring to full text indexing. Whenever you have to put a wild card at the start of a word, you should probably considering using full text indexing. It's easy to implement and the manual pages are fairly informative.

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 02:41 PM, Wendell Dingus wrote:

Some way to
form a query that can tell it to ignore spaces and punctuation in text
in a field? Hmm... Thanks!

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