Mongoose.js: Find user by username LIKE value

Question

I like to to go find a user in mongoDb by looking for a user called value. The problem with:

username: \'peter\'

is that i dont find it if

Answer 1

The following query will find the documents with required string case insensitively and with global occurrence also

var name = 'Peter';
    db.User.find({name:{
                         $regex: new RegExp(name, "ig")
                     }
                },function(err, doc) {
                                     //Your code here...
              });