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JavaScript

Posted by John Smith
John Smith
135 Points

Mongoose concat fields before searching them

Is there a way to concatenate two fields before using a RegExp to see if it would match the users input. Something like this:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE CONCAT(first_name, " ", last_name) LIKE %userInput% OR WHERE email LIKE %userInput%;

So far I've managed to get it to search for emails using this

User.find({ $or: [{ email: new RegExp(`${req.params.search}`) }] })

but I can't find what i need to add to this or to get it to search the joined fields. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.