How to say… match when field is a number… in mongodb?

Question

So I have a field called \'city\' in my results...the results are corrupted, some times it\'s an actual name, sometimes it\'s a number. The following code displays all the recor

Answer 1

You can also use an in command

db.zips.aggregate([     
    {
        $project: {
            first_char: { 
                $substr : ["$city",0,1]
            }, 
            "_id":"$_id"
        } 
    }, 
    {
        $match: {
            first_char: { 
                $in: ["0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"] 
            }
        }
    }
])