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 could use the Any function from Linq to see if any term is contained into the data.

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