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Check if text contains any string item from list of string c# linq

I am trying to fetch a list of users after filtering by their name.
Query:
string filter="alex, faheem, Cohen";
var filterArr=filter.Split(new []{','},StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(f=>f.Trim()).ToList();
var users= (from u in DbContext.Users
where filterArr.Any(y=> u.Name.Contains(y)) select u);
This gives me the error:
Local sequence cannot be used in LINQ to SQL implementations of query operators except the Contains operator.
I can't use filterArr.Contains(x.Name) because Name column contains both first name and second name. Just Like in list above their is an item "alex" and I have a name "Alex Hales" combined in Name column. So If I use filterArr.Contains(x.Name) it will not give me the result.
Any help will be much appreciated.

I'm not sure this is possible in a single statement like this. It's too complicated for the poor parsing stuff to work out.
However, you can get an IQueryable(), then iterate over your filters append these as individual WHERE clauses, then these should get added to the SQL properly later.
Something like this:
//this just gets a reference the DbSet, which implements IQueryable<User>
var queryable = _dbContext.Users;
//iterate over the filters and add each as a separate WHERE clause
foreach(var f in filters)
{
//this just adds to the existing expression tree..
queryable = queryable.Where(u=>u.Name.Contains(f));
}
//this will actually hit the database.
var results = queryable.ToList();
This should generate something like this in SQL (entirely pseudo-code)
select
u.*
from
users u
where
(u.username like "%Sue%")
or (u.username like "%Bob%")
Hope this helps...

I think you can do something like this
string filter = "alex, faheem, Cohen";
var filterArr = filter.Split(new[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(f => f.Trim()).ToList();
var users = _dbContext.Users.Where(x => filterArr.Any(n => n.Contains(x.Name))).ToList();
UPDATE
For your requirement following query will work fine.
string filter = "Alex, faheem, Cohen";
var filterArr = filter.Split(new[] {','}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(f => f.Trim())
.ToList();
var users = _dbContext.Users
.Where(x => filterArr.Any(n => x.UserName.Contains(n))).ToList();
If user has searched for "alex" and in Name (database column) there is "Alex Hales". users query will return the user "Alex Hales".

two foreach in linq?

...I've tried something but I got the "Local sequence cannot be used in LINQ to SQL implementations of query operators except the Contains operator." exception.
I'm talking about this:
Query = Query.Where(t => this.SysTextBox.Text.CSL2Array().All(ss => t.SysName.Contains(ss)));
I'm kind of new at this, but I kept trying to make it work. Thank you in advance!

You should be able to do the query after ToList:
Query = Query.ToList<TagsDeleted>()
.Where(t => this.SubSystemTextBox.Text.CSL2Array().All(ss => t.SubsystemName.Contains(ss)))
.AsQueryable<TagsDeleted>();
But that is not easy to read, I would refactor to the following to make it clear that "I create a list, and want to remove some items":
var words = this.SubSystemTextBox.Text.CSL2Array();
var list = Query.ToList<TagsDeleted>();
list.RemoveAll(t => !words.All(word => t.SubsystemName.Contains(word)));
Query = list.AsQueryable<TagsDeleted>();

var arr = this.SubSystemTextBox.Text.CSL2Array();
var notContained = Query.Where(td=>arr.Any(ss => !td.SubsystemName.Contains(ss)));
Query = Query.Except(notContained);
You can figure this out how to make it in one line, this was just to be clear.

how to use ContainsKey with Linq and manage the case if key not found

How do you convert this code into Linq lambda expression?
var list = new List<string[]>();
foreach (var #char in _word)
{
if (mapping.ContainsKey(#char.ToString())) // I tried with TryGetValue but my brain has thrown a stackoverflow.
list.Add(mapping[#char.ToString()]);
else
list.Add(mapping["?"]);
}
If there were no else part in my previous code, the linq expression would be like the following code but I don't know how also to manage the case where key is not found.
var list = _word.ToCharArray()
.Where(mot => mapping.ContainsKey(mot.ToString()))
.Select(mot => mapping[mot.ToString()]);
The solution must preserve the order please.

var list = _word.Select(mot => mapping.ContainsKey(mot.ToString()) ? mapping[mot.ToString()] : mapping["?"]);

Numbering the rows per group after an orderby in LINQ

Say you have columns AppleType, CreationDate and want to order each group of AppleType by CreationDate. Furthermore, you want to create a new column which explicitly ranks the order of the CreationDate per AppleType.
So, the resulting DataSet would have three columns, AppleType, CreationDate, OrderIntroduced.
Is there a LINQ way of doing this? Would I have to actually go through the data programmatically (but not via LINQ), create an array, convert that to a column and add to the DataSet? I have there is a LINQ way of doing this. Please use LINQ non-method syntax if possible.

So are the values actually appearing in the right order? If so, it's easy - but you do need to use method syntax, as the query expression syntax doesn't support the relevant overload:
var queryWithIndex = queryWithoutIndex.Select((x, index) => new
{
x.AppleType,
x.CreationDate,
OrderIntroduced = index + 1,
});
(That's assuming you want OrderIntroduced starting at 1.)
I don't know offhand how you'd then put that back into a DataSet - but do you really need it in a DataSet as opposed to in the strongly-typed sequence?
EDIT: Okay, the requirements are still unclear, but I think you want something like:
var query = dataSource.GroupBy(x => x.AppleType)
.SelectMany(g => g.OrderBy(x => x.CreationDate)
.Select((x, index ) => new {
x.AppleType,
x.CreationDate,
OrderIntroduced = index + 1 }));
Note: The GroupBy and SelectMany calls here can be put in query expression syntax, but I believe it would make it more messy in this case. It's worth being comfortable with both forms.

If you want a pure Linq to Entities/SQL solution you can do something like this:
Modified to handle duplicate CreationDate's
var query = from a in context.AppleGroup
orderby a.CreationDate
select new
{
AppleType = a.AppleType,
CreationDate = a.CreationDate,
OrderIntroduced = (from b in context.AppleGroup
where b.CreationDate < a.CreationDate
select b).Count() + 1
};

C# PredicateBuilder Entities: The parameter 'f' was not bound in the specified LINQ to Entities query expression

I needed to build a dynamic filter and I wanted to keep using entities. Because of this reason I wanted to use the PredicateBuilder from albahari.
I created the following code:
var invoerDatums = PredicateBuilder.True<OnderzoeksVragen>();
var inner = PredicateBuilder.False<OnderzoeksVragen>();
foreach (var filter in set.RapportInvoerFilter.ToList())
{
if(filter.IsDate)
{
var date = DateTime.Parse(filter.Waarde);
invoerDatums = invoerDatums.Or(o => o.Van >= date && o.Tot <= date);
}
else
{
string temp = filter.Waarde;
inner = inner.Or(o => o.OnderzoekType == temp);
}
}
invoerDatums = invoerDatums.And(inner);
var onderzoeksVragen = entities.OnderzoeksVragen
.AsExpandable()
.Where(invoerDatums)
.ToList();
When I ran the code there was only 1 filter which wasn't a date filter. So only the inner predicate was filled. When the predicate was executed I got the following error.
The parameter 'f' was not bound in the
specified LINQ to Entities query
expression.
While searching for an answer I found the following page. But this is already implemented in the LINQKit.
Does anyone else experienced this error and know how to solve it?

I ran across the same error, the issue seemed to be when I had predicates made with PredicateBuilder that were in turn made up of other predicates made with PredicateBuilder
e.g. (A OR B) AND (X OR Y) where one builder creates A OR B, one creates X OR Y and a third ANDs them together.
With just one level of predicates AsExpandable worked fine, when more than one level was introduced I got the same error.
I wasn't able to find any help but through some trial and error I was able to get things to work.
Every time I called a predicate I followed it with the Expand extension method.
Here is a bit of the code, cut down for simplicity:
public static IQueryable<Submission> AddOptionFilter(
this IQueryable<Submission> query,
IEnumerable<IGrouping<int, int>> options)
{
var predicate = options.Aggregate(
PredicateBuilder.False<Submission>(),
(accumulator, optionIds) => accumulator.Or(ConstructOptionMatchPredicate(optionIds).Expand()));
query = query.Where(predicate.Expand());
return query;
}
Query is an IQueryable which has already had AsExpandable called, ConstructOptionNotMatchPredicate returns an Expression.
Once we got past the error we were certainly able to build up complicated filters at runtime against the entity framework.
Edit:
Since people are still commenting on and up voting this I assume it is still useful so I am sharing another fix. Basically I have stopped using LinqKit and it's predicate builder in favour of this Universal Predicate Builder that has the same API but doesn't need Expand calls, well worth checking out.

I got this error and Mant101's explanation got me the answer, but you might be looking for a simpler example that causes the problem:
// This predicate is the 1st predicate builder
var predicate = PredicateBuilder.True<Widget>();
// and I am adding more predicates to it (all no problem here)
predicate = predicate.And(c => c.ColumnA == 1);
predicate = predicate.And(c => c.ColumnB > 32);
predicate = predicate.And(c => c.ColumnC == 73);
// Now I want to add another "AND" predicate which actually comprises
// of a whole list of sub-"OR" predicates
if(keywords.Length > 0)
{
// NOTICE: Here I am starting off a brand new 2nd predicate builder....
// (I'm not "AND"ing it to the existing one (yet))
var subpredicate = PredicateBuilder.False<Widget>();
foreach(string s in keywords)
{
string t = s; // s is part of enumerable so need to make a copy of it
subpredicate = subpredicate.Or(c => c.Name.Contains(t));
}
// This is the "gotcha" bit... ANDing the independent
// sub-predicate to the 1st one....
// If done like this, you will FAIL!
// predicate = predicate.And(subpredicate); // FAIL at runtime!
// To correct it, you must do this...
predicate = predicate.And(subpredicate.Expand()); // OK at runtime!
}
Hope this helps! :-)