Question

Say i have 3 customer names:

Microsoft
Another customer also called Microsoft
A third customer called Microsoft

Now if i query the customers like this…

var q = (from cust in db.Cust
                    where cust.Name.Contains("Microsoft")
                    orderby cust.Name ascending
                    select cust)

…i get this order:

A third customer called Microsoft
Another customer also called Microsoft
Microsoft

What i want is to get Microsoft first, based on the fact that it starts with “Microsoft”.

Changing Contains to StartsWith of course leaves me with 1 result instead of 3.

Could this be done in a single query?

Answer 1

Maybe

var q = (from cust in db.Cust
                    where cust.Name.Contains("Microsoft")
                    orderby cust.Name.IndexOf("Microsoft"),
                             cust.Name.Length ascending
                    select cust)