Storyline Import Questions with Code

We are in the process of moving our quizzes from one platform to Storyline and are using text files to import. Storyline is successful when we have a question formatted like this:

MC
10
Which logical operator determines whether a specific character string matches a specified pattern?
SOME | Sorry, that is incorrect.
*LIKE | Correct!
WHERE | Sorry, that is incorrect.
IN | Sorry, that is incorrect.

When we attempt to important a question where the question stem has code, we are getting an error that the question is not properly formatted:

Consider the following structured query language (SQL) statement:

{
SELECT ID, Name, CountryCode
FROM city
WHERE Name SQL_OPERATOR'c%'
}

Which structured query language (SQL) operator compares a value to similar values by using the wildcard operators?
NOT | Sorry, that is incorrect.
IN | Sorry, that is incorrect.
*LIKE | Correct!
OR | Sorry, that is incorrect.

Any thoughts on how to easily fix this so Storyline recognizes what is part of the question and what are distractors?