String manipulation

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------664D67153AC8275790FEB635 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is going to any informix wizards out there. I understand that when you use MATCHES for a select query, you can do something like [Ff] to choose between two different characters. Is there a way where you can do the same thing with a string... for example "I have your [(blue)(yellow)(green)] [(automobile)(car)]" would MATCH "I have your yellow automobile" or "I have your green car", but not "I have your purple car"? I'm trying to do this in server-side javascript and java, and the only thing I can think of is creating some loop, but that would mean LOTS of querying. I would really appreciate any help. -ronnie --------------664D67153AC8275790FEB635 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="ronnie_diaz.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Ronnie Diaz Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ronnie_diaz.vcf" begin:vcard n:Diaz;Ronnie x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Applied Signal Technology adr:;;;Sunnyvale;CA;94086;United States version:2.1 email;internet:ronnie_diaz@appsig.com title:Programmer/Analyst tel;fax:(408) 730-8537 tel;home:(408) 599-1064 tel;work:(408) 522-2805 x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Ronnie Diaz end:vcard --------------664D67153AC8275790FEB635--