LINQ Multiple LIKE based on List

Question

I have a list of keywords in an ArrayList and I wanted to be able to build a query to find records in a table based on this keywords.

Since the list of keywords is d

Answer 1

This oughtta do it:

var query = table.Where(p => keywords.Any(kw => p.Name.StartsWith(kw)));

Answer 2

var query = table.Where(p => keywords.Any(kw => p.Name.StartsWith(keyword1) || p.Name.StartsWith(keyword2) || p.Name.StartsWith(keyword3) || p.Name.StartsWith(keyword4)));

Hope it can help you and have a nice day.