I got one big question.
I got a linq query to put it simply looks like this:
from xx in table
where xx.uid.ToString().Contains(string[])
select xx
The values of the string[] array would be numbers like (1,45,20,10,etc...)
the Default for .Contains is .Contains(string).
I need it to do this instead: .Contains(string[])...
EDIT : One user suggested writing an extension class for string[]. I would like to learn how, but any one willing to point me in the right direction?
EDIT : The uid would also be a number. That's why it is converted to a string.
Help anyone?
This is an example of one way of writing an extension method (note: I wouldn't use this for very large arrays; another data structure would be more appropriate...):
namespace StringExtensionMethods
{
public static class StringExtension
{
public static bool Contains(this string[] stringarray, string pat)
{
bool result = false;
foreach (string s in stringarray)
{
if (s == pat)
{
result = true;
break;
}
}
return result;
}
}
}
Linq extension method. Will work with any IEnumerable object:
public static bool ContainsAny<T>(this IEnumerable<T> Collection, IEnumerable<T> Values)
{
return Collection.Any(x=> Values.Contains(x));
}
Usage:
string[] Array1 = {"1", "2"};
string[] Array2 = {"2", "4"};
bool Array2ItemsInArray1 = List1.ContainsAny(List2);
If you are truly looking to replicate Contains, but for an array, here is an extension method and sample code for usage:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace ContainsAnyThingy
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string testValue = "123345789";
//will print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("123", "987", "554"));
//but so will this also print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("1", "987", "554"));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static bool ContainsAny(this string str, params string[] values)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) || values.Length > 0)
{
foreach (string value in values)
{
if(str.Contains(value))
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
}
Try the following.
string input = "someString";
string[] toSearchFor = GetSearchStrings();
var containsAll = toSearchFor.All(x => input.Contains(x));
string texto = "CALCA 40";
string[] descpart = texto.Split(' ');
var lst = (from item in db.InvItemsMaster
where descpart.All(val => item.itm_desc.Contains(val))
select item
).ToList();
Console.WriteLine("ITM".PadRight(10) + "DESC".PadRight(50)+"EAN".PadRight(14));
foreach(var i in lst)
{
Console.Write(i.itm_id.ToString().PadRight(10));
Console.Write(i.itm_desc.ToString().PadRight(50));
Console.WriteLine(i.itm_ean.ToString().PadRight(14));
}
Console.ReadKey();
string[] stringArray = {1,45,20,10};
from xx in table
where stringArray.Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
You should write it the other way around, checking your priviliged user id list contains the id on that row of table:
string[] search = new string[] { "2", "3" };
var result = from x in xx where search.Contains(x.uid.ToString()) select x;
LINQ behaves quite bright here and converts it to a good SQL statement:
sp_executesql N'SELECT [t0].[uid]
FROM [dbo].[xx] AS [t0]
WHERE (CONVERT(NVarChar,[t0].[uid]))
IN (@p0, @p1)',N'@p0 nvarchar(1),
@p1 nvarchar(1)',@p0=N'2',@p1=N'3'
which basicly embeds the contents of the 'search' array into the sql query, and does the filtering with 'IN' keyword in SQL.
So am I assuming correctly that uid is a Unique Identifier (Guid)? Is this just an example of a possible scenario or are you really trying to find a guid that matches an array of strings?
If this is true you may want to really rethink this whole approach, this seems like a really bad idea. You should probably be trying to match a Guid to a Guid
Guid id = new Guid(uid);
var query = from xx in table
where xx.uid == id
select xx;
I honestly can't imagine a scenario where matching a string array using "contains" to the contents of a Guid would be a good idea. For one thing, Contains() will not guarantee the order of numbers in the Guid so you could potentially match multiple items. Not to mention comparing guids this way would be way slower than just doing it directly.
I managed to find a solution, but not a great one as it requires using AsEnumerable() which is going to return all results from the DB, fortunately I only have 1k records in the table so it isn't really noticable, but here goes.
var users = from u in (from u in ctx.Users
where u.Mod_Status != "D"
select u).AsEnumerable()
where ar.All(n => u.FullName.IndexOf(n,
StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) >= 0)
select u;
My original post follows:
How do you do the reverse? I want to do something like the following in entity framework.
string[] search = new string[] { "John", "Doe" }; var users = from u in ctx.Users from s in search where u.FullName.Contains(s) select u;What I want is to find all users where their FullName contains all of the elements in `search'. I've tried a number of different ways, all of which haven't been working for me.
I've also tried
var users = from u in ctx.Users select u; foreach (string s in search) { users = users.Where(u => u.FullName.Contains(s)); }This version only finds those that contain the last element in the search array.
How about:
from xx in table
where stringarray.Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
Dim stringArray() = {"Pink Floyd", "AC/DC"}
Dim inSQL = From alb In albums Where stringArray.Contains(alb.Field(Of String)("Artiste").ToString())
Select New With
{
.Album = alb.Field(Of String)("Album"),
.Annee = StrReverse(alb.Field(Of Integer)("Annee").ToString())
}
Try the following.
string input = "someString";
string[] toSearchFor = GetSearchStrings();
var containsAll = toSearchFor.All(x => input.Contains(x));
I believe that what you really want to do is: let's imagine a scenario you have two database and they have a table of products in common And you want to select products from the table "A" that id has in common with the "B"
using the method contains would be too complicated to do this what we are doing is an intersection, and there is a method called intersection for that
an example from msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336761.aspx#intersect1
int [] numbers = (0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9); int [] numbersB = (1, 3, 5, 7, 8); var = commonNumbers numbersA.Intersect (numbersB);
I think what you need is easily solved with intersection
This is an example of one way of writing an extension method (note: I wouldn't use this for very large arrays; another data structure would be more appropriate...):
namespace StringExtensionMethods
{
public static class StringExtension
{
public static bool Contains(this string[] stringarray, string pat)
{
bool result = false;
foreach (string s in stringarray)
{
if (s == pat)
{
result = true;
break;
}
}
return result;
}
}
}
Try:
var stringInput = "test";
var listOfNames = GetNames();
var result = from names in listOfNames where names.firstName.Trim().ToLower().Contains(stringInput.Trim().ToLower());
select names;
Or if you already have the data in a list and prefer the other Linq format :)
List<string> uids = new List<string>(){"1", "45", "20", "10"};
List<user> table = GetDataFromSomewhere();
List<user> newTable = table.Where(xx => uids.Contains(xx.uid)).ToList();
This is an example of one way of writing an extension method (note: I wouldn't use this for very large arrays; another data structure would be more appropriate...):
namespace StringExtensionMethods
{
public static class StringExtension
{
public static bool Contains(this string[] stringarray, string pat)
{
bool result = false;
foreach (string s in stringarray)
{
if (s == pat)
{
result = true;
break;
}
}
return result;
}
}
}
If you are truly looking to replicate Contains, but for an array, here is an extension method and sample code for usage:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace ContainsAnyThingy
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string testValue = "123345789";
//will print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("123", "987", "554"));
//but so will this also print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("1", "987", "554"));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static bool ContainsAny(this string str, params string[] values)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) || values.Length > 0)
{
foreach (string value in values)
{
if(str.Contains(value))
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
}
How about:
from xx in table
where stringarray.Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
I believe you could also do something like this.
from xx in table
where (from yy in string[]
select yy).Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
Check this extension method:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace ContainsAnyProgram
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
const string iphoneAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like...";
var majorAgents = new[] { "iPhone", "Android", "iPad" };
var minorAgents = new[] { "Blackberry", "Windows Phone" };
// true
Console.WriteLine(iphoneAgent.ContainsAny(majorAgents));
// false
Console.WriteLine(iphoneAgent.ContainsAny(minorAgents));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public static class StringExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// Replicates Contains but for an array
/// </summary>
/// <param name="str">The string.</param>
/// <param name="values">The values.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static bool ContainsAny(this string str, params string[] values)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) && values.Length > 0)
return values.Any(str.Contains);
return false;
}
}
}
Or if you already have the data in a list and prefer the other Linq format :)
List<string> uids = new List<string>(){"1", "45", "20", "10"};
List<user> table = GetDataFromSomewhere();
List<user> newTable = table.Where(xx => uids.Contains(xx.uid)).ToList();
So am I assuming correctly that uid is a Unique Identifier (Guid)? Is this just an example of a possible scenario or are you really trying to find a guid that matches an array of strings?
If this is true you may want to really rethink this whole approach, this seems like a really bad idea. You should probably be trying to match a Guid to a Guid
Guid id = new Guid(uid);
var query = from xx in table
where xx.uid == id
select xx;
I honestly can't imagine a scenario where matching a string array using "contains" to the contents of a Guid would be a good idea. For one thing, Contains() will not guarantee the order of numbers in the Guid so you could potentially match multiple items. Not to mention comparing guids this way would be way slower than just doing it directly.
Try the following.
string input = "someString";
string[] toSearchFor = GetSearchStrings();
var containsAll = toSearchFor.All(x => input.Contains(x));
This is a late answer, but I believe it is still useful.
I have created the NinjaNye.SearchExtension nuget package that can help solve this very problem.:
string[] terms = new[]{"search", "term", "collection"};
var result = context.Table.Search(terms, x => x.Name);
You could also search multiple string properties
var result = context.Table.Search(terms, x => x.Name, p.Description);
Or perform a RankedSearch which returns IQueryable<IRanked<T>> which simply includes a property which shows how many times the search terms appeared:
//Perform search and rank results by the most hits
var result = context.Table.RankedSearch(terms, x => x.Name, x.Description)
.OrderByDescending(r = r.Hits);
Hope this helps future visitors
You should write it the other way around, checking your priviliged user id list contains the id on that row of table:
string[] search = new string[] { "2", "3" };
var result = from x in xx where search.Contains(x.uid.ToString()) select x;
LINQ behaves quite bright here and converts it to a good SQL statement:
sp_executesql N'SELECT [t0].[uid]
FROM [dbo].[xx] AS [t0]
WHERE (CONVERT(NVarChar,[t0].[uid]))
IN (@p0, @p1)',N'@p0 nvarchar(1),
@p1 nvarchar(1)',@p0=N'2',@p1=N'3'
which basicly embeds the contents of the 'search' array into the sql query, and does the filtering with 'IN' keyword in SQL.
I believe you could also do something like this.
from xx in table
where (from yy in string[]
select yy).Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
string texto = "CALCA 40";
string[] descpart = texto.Split(' ');
var lst = (from item in db.InvItemsMaster
where descpart.All(val => item.itm_desc.Contains(val))
select item
).ToList();
Console.WriteLine("ITM".PadRight(10) + "DESC".PadRight(50)+"EAN".PadRight(14));
foreach(var i in lst)
{
Console.Write(i.itm_id.ToString().PadRight(10));
Console.Write(i.itm_desc.ToString().PadRight(50));
Console.WriteLine(i.itm_ean.ToString().PadRight(14));
}
Console.ReadKey();
Try the following.
string input = "someString";
string[] toSearchFor = GetSearchStrings();
var containsAll = toSearchFor.All(x => input.Contains(x));
Linq extension method. Will work with any IEnumerable object:
public static bool ContainsAny<T>(this IEnumerable<T> Collection, IEnumerable<T> Values)
{
return Collection.Any(x=> Values.Contains(x));
}
Usage:
string[] Array1 = {"1", "2"};
string[] Array2 = {"2", "4"};
bool Array2ItemsInArray1 = List1.ContainsAny(List2);
How about:
from xx in table
where stringarray.Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
If you are truly looking to replicate Contains, but for an array, here is an extension method and sample code for usage:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace ContainsAnyThingy
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string testValue = "123345789";
//will print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("123", "987", "554"));
//but so will this also print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("1", "987", "554"));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static bool ContainsAny(this string str, params string[] values)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) || values.Length > 0)
{
foreach (string value in values)
{
if(str.Contains(value))
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
}
Dim stringArray() = {"Pink Floyd", "AC/DC"}
Dim inSQL = From alb In albums Where stringArray.Contains(alb.Field(Of String)("Artiste").ToString())
Select New With
{
.Album = alb.Field(Of String)("Album"),
.Annee = StrReverse(alb.Field(Of Integer)("Annee").ToString())
}
var SelecetdSteps = Context.FFTrakingSubCriticalSteps
.Where(x => x.MeetingId == meetid)
.Select(x =>
x.StepID
);
var crtiticalsteps = Context.MT_CriticalSteps.Where(x =>x.cropid==FFT.Cropid).Select(x=>new
{
StepID= x.crsid,
x.Name,
Checked=false
});
var quer = from ax in crtiticalsteps
where (!SelecetdSteps.Contains(ax.StepID))
select ax;
from xx in table
where xx.uid.Split(',').Contains(string value )
select xx
string[] stringArray = {1,45,20,10};
from xx in table
where stringArray.Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
I believe you could also do something like this.
from xx in table
where (from yy in string[]
select yy).Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
So am I assuming correctly that uid is a Unique Identifier (Guid)? Is this just an example of a possible scenario or are you really trying to find a guid that matches an array of strings?
If this is true you may want to really rethink this whole approach, this seems like a really bad idea. You should probably be trying to match a Guid to a Guid
Guid id = new Guid(uid);
var query = from xx in table
where xx.uid == id
select xx;
I honestly can't imagine a scenario where matching a string array using "contains" to the contents of a Guid would be a good idea. For one thing, Contains() will not guarantee the order of numbers in the Guid so you could potentially match multiple items. Not to mention comparing guids this way would be way slower than just doing it directly.
You should write it the other way around, checking your priviliged user id list contains the id on that row of table:
string[] search = new string[] { "2", "3" };
var result = from x in xx where search.Contains(x.uid.ToString()) select x;
LINQ behaves quite bright here and converts it to a good SQL statement:
sp_executesql N'SELECT [t0].[uid]
FROM [dbo].[xx] AS [t0]
WHERE (CONVERT(NVarChar,[t0].[uid]))
IN (@p0, @p1)',N'@p0 nvarchar(1),
@p1 nvarchar(1)',@p0=N'2',@p1=N'3'
which basicly embeds the contents of the 'search' array into the sql query, and does the filtering with 'IN' keyword in SQL.
The best solution I found was to go ahead and create a Table-Valued Function in SQL that produces the results, such as ::
CREATE function [dbo].[getMatches](@textStr nvarchar(50)) returns @MatchTbl table(
Fullname nvarchar(50) null,
ID nvarchar(50) null
)
as begin
declare @SearchStr nvarchar(50);
set @SearchStr = '%' + @textStr + '%';
insert into @MatchTbl
select (LName + ', ' + FName + ' ' + MName) AS FullName, ID = ID from employees where LName like @SearchStr;
return;
end
GO
select * from dbo.getMatches('j')
Then, you simply drag the function into your LINQ.dbml designer and call it like you do your other objects. The LINQ even knows the columns of your stored function. I call it out like this ::
Dim db As New NobleLINQ
Dim LNameSearch As String = txt_searchLName.Text
Dim hlink As HyperLink
For Each ee In db.getMatches(LNameSearch)
hlink = New HyperLink With {.Text = ee.Fullname & "<br />", .NavigateUrl = "?ID=" & ee.ID}
pnl_results.Controls.Add(hlink)
Next
Incredibly simple and really utlizes the power of SQL and LINQ in the application...and you can, of course, generate any table valued function you want for the same effects!
I believe that what you really want to do is: let's imagine a scenario you have two database and they have a table of products in common And you want to select products from the table "A" that id has in common with the "B"
using the method contains would be too complicated to do this what we are doing is an intersection, and there is a method called intersection for that
an example from msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336761.aspx#intersect1
int [] numbers = (0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9); int [] numbersB = (1, 3, 5, 7, 8); var = commonNumbers numbersA.Intersect (numbersB);
I think what you need is easily solved with intersection
If you are truly looking to replicate Contains, but for an array, here is an extension method and sample code for usage:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace ContainsAnyThingy
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string testValue = "123345789";
//will print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("123", "987", "554"));
//but so will this also print true
Console.WriteLine(testValue.ContainsAny("1", "987", "554"));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static bool ContainsAny(this string str, params string[] values)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) || values.Length > 0)
{
foreach (string value in values)
{
if(str.Contains(value))
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
}
This is an example of one way of writing an extension method (note: I wouldn't use this for very large arrays; another data structure would be more appropriate...):
namespace StringExtensionMethods
{
public static class StringExtension
{
public static bool Contains(this string[] stringarray, string pat)
{
bool result = false;
foreach (string s in stringarray)
{
if (s == pat)
{
result = true;
break;
}
}
return result;
}
}
}
from xx in table
where xx.uid.Split(',').Contains(string value )
select xx
The best solution I found was to go ahead and create a Table-Valued Function in SQL that produces the results, such as ::
CREATE function [dbo].[getMatches](@textStr nvarchar(50)) returns @MatchTbl table(
Fullname nvarchar(50) null,
ID nvarchar(50) null
)
as begin
declare @SearchStr nvarchar(50);
set @SearchStr = '%' + @textStr + '%';
insert into @MatchTbl
select (LName + ', ' + FName + ' ' + MName) AS FullName, ID = ID from employees where LName like @SearchStr;
return;
end
GO
select * from dbo.getMatches('j')
Then, you simply drag the function into your LINQ.dbml designer and call it like you do your other objects. The LINQ even knows the columns of your stored function. I call it out like this ::
Dim db As New NobleLINQ
Dim LNameSearch As String = txt_searchLName.Text
Dim hlink As HyperLink
For Each ee In db.getMatches(LNameSearch)
hlink = New HyperLink With {.Text = ee.Fullname & "<br />", .NavigateUrl = "?ID=" & ee.ID}
pnl_results.Controls.Add(hlink)
Next
Incredibly simple and really utlizes the power of SQL and LINQ in the application...and you can, of course, generate any table valued function you want for the same effects!
I managed to find a solution, but not a great one as it requires using AsEnumerable() which is going to return all results from the DB, fortunately I only have 1k records in the table so it isn't really noticable, but here goes.
var users = from u in (from u in ctx.Users
where u.Mod_Status != "D"
select u).AsEnumerable()
where ar.All(n => u.FullName.IndexOf(n,
StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) >= 0)
select u;
My original post follows:
How do you do the reverse? I want to do something like the following in entity framework.
string[] search = new string[] { "John", "Doe" }; var users = from u in ctx.Users from s in search where u.FullName.Contains(s) select u;What I want is to find all users where their FullName contains all of the elements in `search'. I've tried a number of different ways, all of which haven't been working for me.
I've also tried
var users = from u in ctx.Users select u; foreach (string s in search) { users = users.Where(u => u.FullName.Contains(s)); }This version only finds those that contain the last element in the search array.
LINQ in .NET 4.0 has another option for you; the .Any() method;
string[] values = new[] { "1", "2", "3" };
string data = "some string 1";
bool containsAny = values.Any(data.Contains);
Check this extension method:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace ContainsAnyProgram
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
const string iphoneAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like...";
var majorAgents = new[] { "iPhone", "Android", "iPad" };
var minorAgents = new[] { "Blackberry", "Windows Phone" };
// true
Console.WriteLine(iphoneAgent.ContainsAny(majorAgents));
// false
Console.WriteLine(iphoneAgent.ContainsAny(minorAgents));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public static class StringExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// Replicates Contains but for an array
/// </summary>
/// <param name="str">The string.</param>
/// <param name="values">The values.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static bool ContainsAny(this string str, params string[] values)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) && values.Length > 0)
return values.Any(str.Contains);
return false;
}
}
}
You should write it the other way around, checking your priviliged user id list contains the id on that row of table:
string[] search = new string[] { "2", "3" };
var result = from x in xx where search.Contains(x.uid.ToString()) select x;
LINQ behaves quite bright here and converts it to a good SQL statement:
sp_executesql N'SELECT [t0].[uid]
FROM [dbo].[xx] AS [t0]
WHERE (CONVERT(NVarChar,[t0].[uid]))
IN (@p0, @p1)',N'@p0 nvarchar(1),
@p1 nvarchar(1)',@p0=N'2',@p1=N'3'
which basicly embeds the contents of the 'search' array into the sql query, and does the filtering with 'IN' keyword in SQL.
Try:
var stringInput = "test";
var listOfNames = GetNames();
var result = from names in listOfNames where names.firstName.Trim().ToLower().Contains(stringInput.Trim().ToLower());
select names;
LINQ in .NET 4.0 has another option for you; the .Any() method;
string[] values = new[] { "1", "2", "3" };
string data = "some string 1";
bool containsAny = values.Any(data.Contains);
This is a late answer, but I believe it is still useful.
I have created the NinjaNye.SearchExtension nuget package that can help solve this very problem.:
string[] terms = new[]{"search", "term", "collection"};
var result = context.Table.Search(terms, x => x.Name);
You could also search multiple string properties
var result = context.Table.Search(terms, x => x.Name, p.Description);
Or perform a RankedSearch which returns IQueryable<IRanked<T>> which simply includes a property which shows how many times the search terms appeared:
//Perform search and rank results by the most hits
var result = context.Table.RankedSearch(terms, x => x.Name, x.Description)
.OrderByDescending(r = r.Hits);
Hope this helps future visitors
var SelecetdSteps = Context.FFTrakingSubCriticalSteps
.Where(x => x.MeetingId == meetid)
.Select(x =>
x.StepID
);
var crtiticalsteps = Context.MT_CriticalSteps.Where(x =>x.cropid==FFT.Cropid).Select(x=>new
{
StepID= x.crsid,
x.Name,
Checked=false
});
var quer = from ax in crtiticalsteps
where (!SelecetdSteps.Contains(ax.StepID))
select ax;
So am I assuming correctly that uid is a Unique Identifier (Guid)? Is this just an example of a possible scenario or are you really trying to find a guid that matches an array of strings?
If this is true you may want to really rethink this whole approach, this seems like a really bad idea. You should probably be trying to match a Guid to a Guid
Guid id = new Guid(uid);
var query = from xx in table
where xx.uid == id
select xx;
I honestly can't imagine a scenario where matching a string array using "contains" to the contents of a Guid would be a good idea. For one thing, Contains() will not guarantee the order of numbers in the Guid so you could potentially match multiple items. Not to mention comparing guids this way would be way slower than just doing it directly.
I believe you could also do something like this.
from xx in table
where (from yy in string[]
select yy).Contains(xx.uid.ToString())
select xx
Source: Stackoverflow.com