yar.
I'll give it another try, thx for the help. It's really more of an academic problem at this point, since I have functional code.

I need case insensitivity to handle case mismatching, since significant chunks of the database are copied from public sources with different case/abbreviation schemes. Feel my pain: we're talking @8000 rows (and growing) ranging in format from "PNT,BLD,W/O NA" to "Boiled peanuts, salt free".

(Actually I am extremely thankful to have them, but there are challenges. I do have a PHP system to expedite hand-entering rows and/or updating fields, but with 80 fields -- also growing -- hand-entering data is an horrendous chore.)