Compare texts strings in VB.NET from Access mdb

Is there a way I can compare texts strings enter from a user at run time to an Access mdb field declared as memo? If there is a way, would anyone share it with me? The texts typed from a user at run time are from a text box compare to a SQL query from the Access mdb file. If that is not possible, please suggest another way that the comparison can be done with a more relaxed comparison. I have used the operator "=" and it is too strict and exact.

Please help if anyone have an idea.

Many thanks in advance!

Chong

Try this example . It returns non-zero value if strings being compared aren't alike and zero whey they are .
It compares :spaces , upper and lower cases ...etc . It looks simple but does the job efficiently ;)

VB Code:

Dim str1 As String = "abc"
        Dim str2 As String = "ABC"
        Dim RESULT As String = String.Compare(str1, str2)
        MsgBox(RESULT)

Thanks for reponding to my request. However, I'm afraid the code you gave me would be too precise. I want a more relaxed comparison. Another word, the comparison would not compare spaces, upper or lower cases etc.. In addition, I planned to compare maybe a phrase or just a word from the user to a memo text field in the database which could be more than one or two paragraphs of texts. For example, I want to compare 4H Club to a memo of texts field that has over two thousand of characters. And if any word or phrase in this text field matches the word typed by the user, then give me a true result or something like that.

Chong

This demo applies on single words (not phrases) . As I said it checks for all differences between both words and return nonzero value if not similar .try it out 1