I have a form which allows the user to search on a
wildcard input. However, I am having trouble validating
the input as a valid wildcard string.

I can't seem to find any useful help on using regular
expressions within Access 2000 or VB, let alone how I
would could use it to solve my problem.

Can anyone provide any advice or point me to some info ?

Thanks,
Becks

By the way: what database are you using: MSDE/SQLServer has a quite
different syntax from Jet?

Tim F