How to use mongo '$or' operator with regex with 2 different keys?

Question

Working on a search bar to search through a list of items (items have name and address) in react with mongo

the keys are called 'name' and 'Address'

I want the search bar to to display based on user input, it could be name or address based on regex

But I can only get the query to use one of the keys and not both

queryData['name'] = { $regex: searchField.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-_@.]/g,''), $options: 'i' } // this lets me search through name array

When I change 'name' to address, it will use the address array for searchbar how can I use both name and address?

I tried doing

queryData['$or'] = [
    { name: {regex: searchField.replace(...), $options: 'i' }},
    { address: {regex: searchField.replace(...),$options:'i'}}
]

But the above method does not work, no errors on inspector, is my syntax off ? What else can I try? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The only thing is that in your syntax you don't have the $ in front of your regex strings. I tried your example on a MongoDB database that I have running locally and it seems to work as long as you use $regex, not regex, so (in my case):

 {$or: [{name: {regex: "Energy"}},{category: {regex: "Values"}}]}