Mongodb Return only matched elements within array

Question

is it possible to return only matched elements within array that contains Accessories

input sample

[
{
  "values":[
     "Aerial and fa ade cables Accessories",
     "LANmark 5 Shielded Cable",
     "Market challenges"
  ],
  "doc":"doc1"
},
{
  "values":[
     "Aerial and fa ade cables ",
     "Tools Accessories"
  ],
  "doc":"doc2"
}
]

expected output

 "Aerial and fa ade cables Accessories",
 "Tools Accessories"

Combine $elemMatch with $regex, see the documentation to more about docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/query-arrays/… — andergtk
– andergtk, Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 13:42

Basu_C · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-03 14:13:30Z

2

This snippet should work here:
Mongo v4.2.3

db.collection.aggregate([
   {$unwind: "$values"},
   {$match: { values: { $regex: /accessories/i } }},
   {$project:{values: 1, _id: 0}}
])

answered Mar 3, 2020 at 14:13

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whoami - fakeFaceTrueSoul Over a year ago

You can do this & similarly equally you should not do this when your dataset is huge - So this definitely is not the best answer, $unwind will explode docs in collection, In your case you'll be working on 5 docs instead of just 2, which makes a query to run slow & also you need a group stage to merge docs if needed - which adds additional unnecessary stages !! There are a lot of questions on similar topic - Check this answer :: stackoverflow.com/questions/3985214/…

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