SqlMethods.Like Method (String, String, Char)
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Determines whether a specific character string matches a specified pattern. This method is currently only supported in LINQ to SQL queries.
Assembly: System.Data.Linq (in System.Data.Linq.dll)
'Declaration Public Shared Function Like ( _ matchExpression As String, _ pattern As String, _ escapeCharacter As Char _ ) As Boolean
Parameters
- matchExpression
- Type: System.String
The string to be searched for a match.
- pattern
- Type: System.String
The pattern, which may include wildcard characters, to match in matchExpression.
- escapeCharacter
- Type: System.Char
The character to put in front of a wildcard character to indicate that it should be interpreted as a regular character and not as a wildcard character.
The SQL Server LIKE functionality cannot be exposed through translation of existing common language runtime (CLR) and .NET Framework constructs, and is unsupported outside of a LINQ to SQL context. The use of this method outside of LINQ to SQL will always throw an exception of type NotSupportedException.