Question

How do i find out if a string is containing the exact word i am looking for?

example: “this is my text”; word looking for: “text”; found: yes.

example: “these are my texts”; word looking for: “text”; found: no.

• it’s inside a linq to entities query, so regex won’t work?

Edit:

This is more or less what i’m doing now and i want to replace it by a function that returns only when it’s the exact match.

    using (Model.Manager ctx = new Model.Manager())
    {
        var result = from p in ctx.Companies where p.Name.Contains(workLookingFor) select p;        
    }

Solution so far:

I could use .Contains() on my DB and use RegEx on the results pulled from the DB. Since the exact matches are always inside the broader results from .Contains() (which i still need anyways) this could be a good solution

Answer 1

There isn’t an easy way. You have three options

• run your query, then do the pattern matching on the client
• use SQL Fulltext Search engine
• add a CLR function to the database that lets you do regex matching