I have the following: select * from Users where <!--#var searchkey--> like "%<!--#var valuekey-->%" order by <!--#var searchkey--> I get: Error, exceptions.SyntaxError: unexpected token sequence.near :: 'where firstname'*' like "%Donald%' ******************************* current state = 45 expects: ',', 'UNION', 'FLOAT', 'GROUP', 'VARCHAR', 'DESC', 'SELECT', 'ORDER', 'WHERE', 'AS', 'IN', 'INTERSECT', 'ASC', '*', '+', '(', ')', '.', '/', 'EXCEPT', '-', 'AND', 'FROM', '*', ';', 'INTEGER', 'NOT', '>', 'OR', '=', 'BETWEEN', 'HAVING', '<', 'VALUES', ('nomatch1',) current token = ((-8, 'user_defined_name'), 'LIKE') SQL used: select * from Users where firstname like "%Donald%" order by firstname The SQL used looks fine to me. Anyone see any problems with this code? Thanks! Donner