创建一个LINQ查询比较数组

Question

I'm very new to LINQ and I'm searching to filter an SQL view which has a column called 'Readers' containing several group names separated by '#' (es. "Administrators#HR Group#Employees Group"). Having a list of user's groups, I need to extract all the records where Readers contains at least one of the user's groups. In other words, the user must see only those records belonging to him.

I found this solution, but I think it's extremely inefficient:

private List<vwFax>getmyFaxes(List<string> myGroups)
{
    var myFax = db.vwFax.AsQueryable();
    var res = db.vwFax.AsQueryable();
    List<vwFax> outRes= new List<vwFax>();

    foreach (string elem in myGroups)
    {
        res = (from a in myFax
                where a.Readers.Contains(elem)
                select a); 
        if(res.Count() > 0)
        {
            outRes.AddRange(res);
        }               
    }
    return outRes.ToList();
}

Any help please?

Answer 1

Basically what you are saying in the following query is: For each item in myFax take it only if that item.Readers contains Any (at least 1) of the items in myGroups

outRes = db.myFax.Where(item => myGroups.Any(grp => item.Readers.Contains(grp)));

and in query-syntax:

outRes = from item in db.myFax
         where myGroups.Any(grp => item.Readers.Contains(grp))
         select item;