Yes, you can use regexp to make a case-insensitive query in MongoDB. The syntax is as follows:
db.yourCollectionName.find({"yourFieldName":/^yourvalue$/i});
To understand the above syntax, let us create a collection with some documents. The query to create a collection with documents is as follows:
> db.caseInsensitiveDemo.insertOne({"Name":"John"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5c6d7a67f2db199c1278e7ef") } > db.caseInsensitiveDemo.insertOne({"Name":"JOHN"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5c6d7ad6f2db199c1278e7f0") }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find(). The query is as follows:
> db.caseInsensitiveDemo.find();
The following is the output:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c6d7a67f2db199c1278e7ef"), "Name" : "John" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5c6d7ad6f2db199c1278e7f0"), "Name" : "JOHN" }
Here is the query to make case insensitive query:
> db.caseInsensitiveDemo.find({"Name":/^john$/i});
The following is the output:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c6d7a67f2db199c1278e7ef"), "Name" : "John" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5c6d7ad6f2db199c1278e7f0"), "Name" : "JOHN" }