I was busy writing a Node.js application with MongoDB integration when I came across this little problem with Regular expressions and MongoDB calls.
The following code will just return nothing:
var search = 'Joe';
db.users.find(name: /^search/);
db.users.find(name: {$regex: /^search/});
db.users.find(name: {$regex: "/^" + search + "/"});The solution to this little problem is quite simple:
db.users.find(name: new RegExp(search));I hate little issues like these.. so hope this helps someone else.