Kake, Some of the work I will be doing on the search for OpenGuides necessitates an enhancement to the method list_nodes_by_metadata. This will enable SQL LIKE type matches. Patch follows: --- database.pm.orig +++ database.pm @@ -785,1 +785,2 @@ - $self->_get_list_by_metadata_sql( ignore_case => $args{ignore_case} ); + $self->_get_list_by_metadata_sql( match_type => $match, + ignore_case => $args{ignore_case} ); @@ -797,0 +798,6 @@ + + my ($self,%args) = @_; + my $match = $args{match_type} || '='; + + croak "SQL match type must be LIKE or '='" unless $match =~ /=|like/i; + @@ -801,1 +808,1 @@ - . " AND metadata.metadata_value = ? "; + . " AND metadata.metadata_value $match ? "; By the way, I've completed the tidying up of SuperSearch.pm; I'm happy for it to be released in its present form. Ivor.