Hello All
i have a US states list
List<string> state // contain all 51 US states
Now i have a string which contain some text like okl (it means Oklahoma for me). what i want i want 'like' query in List state and get Oklahoma state.
Hello All
i have a US states list
List<string> state // contain all 51 US states
Now i have a string which contain some text like okl (it means Oklahoma for me). what i want i want 'like' query in List state and get Oklahoma state.
Something like:
var matches = states.Where(state => state.Contains(searchText));
That's fine if the case matches as well, but it doesn't work so well for case-insensitive matches. For that, you might want something like:
var matches = states.Where(state =>
state.IndexOf(searchText, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != -1);
Choose the exact string comparison you want appropriately - you might want to use the current culture, for example.
Also check
StartsWith
EndsWith
another alternate
var query = from c in ctx.Customers
where SqlMethods.Like(c.City, "L_n%")
select c;
If you want a really sophisticated approximate match check out Levenshtein distance in http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/