Question

I’m trying to search mongo collection to retrieve some value based on variable name, like this
sportName = “/Basketball/i”;

db.Team.find({name:sportName}).forEach(function (team) {
    print(team.name);
});

It always returns nothing although when I search using the following script it returns result

db.Team.find({name: /Basketball/i}).forEach(function (team) {
    print(team.name);
});

Thanks

Answer 1

You can’t assign a regex to a variable like this:

sportName = "/Basketball/i";    // This is a string.

Do it like this:

sportName = /Basketball/i;      // This is a regex.