Linq to Entities (EF 4.1): How to do a SQL LIKE with a wildcard in the middle ( '%term%term%')?

Question

I want to search for this:

Post Cereal

and get this:

Post Honey Nut Cereal

where the wild cards would be

Answer 1

It is probably easier to bypass LINQ and use an Entity SQL filter:

var query - db.table.Where("TRIM(fieldname) LIKE @pattern");
query.Parameters.Add(new ObjectParameter("pattern", term)); // term == "%what%ever%"

and the type of query implements IQueryable so you can apply further LINQ operators.