Searching string with special characters in MongoDB document

Question

I want to search values having special characters such as \" $ / . @ > \" in a document.

Lets consider, I\'ve myKey with values like \"test$aus

Answer 1

You can use this:

db.myCollection.find({myKey:{ $regex:new RegExp('^' + 'test$australia'.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&') + '$', 'i')}})