How to query MongoDB with “like”?

Question

I want to query something with SQL\'s like query:

SELECT * FROM users  WHERE name LIKE \'%m%\'

How to do I achieve the same in

Answer 1

As Mongo shell support regex, that's completely possible.

db.users.findOne({"name" : /.*sometext.*/});

If we want the query to be case-insensitive, we can use "i" option, like shown below:

db.users.findOne({"name" : /.*sometext.*/i});