Search datetime using string

[jagadeesh1492]

query.Search(p=>p.date).soundex("10")

search datetime

[ninjanye]

Could you expand on what it is you are trying to achieve?

Have you tried, query.Search(p=>p.date.ToString()).Soundex("10")

[yzorg]

LINQ does not support null-coalescing operator, so this
is NOT possible: query.Search(p => p.ClosedDate?.ToString() ?? "");

which leads to a lot of duplicated code like this:
query.Search(p => p.ClosedDate == null ? "" : p.ClosedDate.ToString());

Not asking for the feature, but after reading @ninjanye's blog posts on the topic I haven't seen a single example with NULL DATETIME columns. So more of an FYI than a feature request.

[ninjanye]

Hi @yzorg

Thanks for getting in touch, could you link me to the particular article you are referring to and I'll try and see if I can help clear things up

[P47K0]

I also converted a DateTime to a string but how can you do a search on the full date or multiple parts of a date? I clould only manage to do a search on one part of the date, the year for example.
query.Search(x => x.TransactionDateTime.ToString().Containing("2022");

Searching on "2022-03" gives an empty collection (while there are records with a TransactionDateTime of march this year).
query.Search(x => x.TransactionDateTime.ToString().Containing("2022-03");

When I try to pass a format to the ToString method, I get a Linq error:
query.Search(x => x.TransactionDateTime.ToString("s").Containing("2022-03")

Error:
DbSet<Transaction>().Where(t => t.TransactionDateTime.ToString("s").Contains("2022-03"))' could not be translated. Additional information: Translation of method 'System.DateTime.ToString' failed. If this method can be mapped to your custom function, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2132413 for more information.