How do you check if a string contains any strings from a list in Entity Framework?

Question

I am trying to search a database to see if a string contains elements of a list of search terms.

var searchTerms = new List { \"car\", \"232\"          


        

Answer 1

You can try using Any method, I'm not sure whether it's supported but it's worth trying:

var result = context.Data.Where(data => searchTerms.Any(x => data.Name.Contains(x)) ||
                                        searchTerms.Any(x => data.Code.Contains(x));

If this gives you NotSupportedException you can add AsEnumerable before Where to fetch all records and execute the query in memory rather than DB.