I have an array of search words and a second array that needs to be searched, returning true or false depending if any of the strings in the 2nd array contain text from the first. I tried using linq but I can't get it to return true if any of the values in the second array contain more than just those search words. I was thinking of using Regex maybe in combination with the linq query but I'm not sure how that would work. Here is what I was tried
string[] gsdSearchVerbiage =
{
"grade",
"transcript",
"gsd"
};
string[] tableColumns = new string []
{
"maxsgrades",
"somethingElse",
};
bool gsdFound = tableColumns.Any(
x => gsdSearchVerbiage.Contains(x));
This returns false. I understand why it's returning false but I can't figure out how to fix it. If the answer is to use a regular expression I couldn't figure out how to do that over 2 arrays...
Last statement should be
bool gsdFound = tableColumns.Any(
x => gsdSearchVerbiage.Any(y => x.Contains(y)));
since you're trying to know if the current item of tableColumns (x) contains any of gsdSearchVerbiage words (y)