How can I use a regex variable in a query for MongoDB

Question

I would like to make query MongoDB for documents based on a regex expression that I contruct. For e.g I have constructed a simple regex as follows that is a combination of a

Answer 1

I was having same problem with my title and after lots of searching, i found this answer Here,

var search = 'Joe';
db.users.find(name: /^search/)
db.users.find(name: {$regex: /^search/});
db.users.find(name: {$regex: "/^" + search + "/"});

The queries above won’t return anything. The solution to this little problem is quite simple:

db.users.find(name: new RegExp(search)) //For substring search, case sensitive. 
db.users.find(name: new RegExp('^' + search + '$')) //For exact search, case sensitive
db.users.find(name: new RegExp(search， ‘i')) //For substring search, case insensitive
db.users.find(name: new RegExp('^' +search + '$', 'i')); //For exact search, case insensitive

Other flags or properties can be added base on reference here