Like operator or using wildcards in LINQ to Entities

Question

I\'m using LINQ 2 Entities. Following is the problem:

string str = \'%test%.doc%\' 
.Contains(str) // converts this into LIKE \'%~%test~%.doc~%%\'

Answer 1

Use a regular expression...

The following will print out all of the files in the current directory that match test.doc* (dos wildcard style - which I believe is what you're asking for)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.IO;

namespace RegexFileTester
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string[] _files = Directory.GetFiles(".");
            var _fileMatches =  from i in _files
                                where Regex.IsMatch(i, ".*test*.doc.*")
                                //where Regex.IsMatch(i, ".*cs")
                                select i;
            foreach(var _file in _fileMatches)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(_file);
            }
        }
    }
}