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

Split the String

var str =  "%test%.doc%";
var arr = str.Split(new[]{'%'} ,StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
var q = tblUsers.Select (u => u);
foreach (var item in arr)
{
    var localItem = item;
    q = q.Where (x => x.userName.Contains(localItem));
}