How to make “LIKE” query work in MongoDB?

Question

I have a list of street names and I want to select all that start with \"Al\". In my MySQL I would do something like

SELECT * FROM streets WHERE \"street_nam         


        

Answer 1

$collection.find({"name": /.*Al.*/})

or, similar,

$collection.find({"name": /Al/})

You're looking for something that contains "Al" somewhere (SQL's '%' operator is equivalent to regexps' '.*'), not something that has "Al" anchored to the beginning of the string.