Case insensitive string compare in LINQ expression

Question

I\'m trying to write an ExpressionVisitor to wrap around my LINQ-to-object expressions to automatically make their string comparisons case insensitive, just as they would be

Answer 1

I made a sample app from your code and it seems working:

    public class Test
{
    public string Name;
}
public class CaseInsensitiveExpressionVisitor : ExpressionVisitor
{

    protected override Expression VisitMember(MemberExpression node)
    {
        if (insideContains)
        {
            if (node.Type == typeof (String))
            {
                var methodInfo = typeof (String).GetMethod("ToLower", new Type[] {});
                var expression = Expression.Call(node, methodInfo);
                return expression;
            }
        }
        return base.VisitMember(node);
    }

    private Boolean insideContains = false;

    protected override Expression VisitMethodCall(MethodCallExpression node)
    {
        if (node.Method.Name == "Contains")
        {
            if (insideContains) throw new NotSupportedException();
            insideContains = true;
            var result = base.VisitMethodCall(node);
            insideContains = false;
            return result;
        }
        return base.VisitMethodCall(node);
    }
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Expression <Func<Test, bool>> expr = (t) => t.Name.Contains("a");
        var  expr1 = (Expression<Func<Test, bool>>) new CaseInsensitiveExpressionVisitor().Visit(expr);
        var test = new[] {new Test {Name = "A"}};
        var length = test.Where(expr1.Compile()).ToArray().Length;
        Debug.Assert(length == 1);
        Debug.Assert(test.Where(expr.Compile()).ToArray().Length == 0);

    }
}

Answer 2

you can create a extesion method like this:

public static class Extensions
{
    public static bool InsensitiveEqual(this string val1, string val2)
    {
        return val1.Equals(val2, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
    }
}

And then you can call like this:

string teste = "teste";
string teste2 = "TESTE";

bool NOTREAL = teste.Equals(teste2); //FALSE
bool REAL = teste.InsensitiveEqual(teste2); //true