mongo shell search for value like "/"fubak@drooop.com"/"

Question

I may have let a bug loose on our code that essentially ruined some of our db data.

Every now and again we come across a username that has " " in his email so we need to fix this.

How can I search for a value like "/"fubak@drooop.com"/" in one field using my mongo shell?

I have been trying all the combinations I can think of like:

db.users.find(username: /"/" .* /)

and

db.users.find(username: //.*//)

or

db.users.find(username: /"".*/)

But nothing seems to work.

Answer 1

new RegExp('^".*')

This finds all the records that start with ".

Thanks.

Answer 2

Try this:

db.users.find({ email: "(?:[^\\"]+|\\.)*  })   

This will match all documents which contains quotes in the email

Answer 3

Not to sure which one is you problem, so the solutions to both possible scenarios with data in MongoDB like this:

{ "email" : "\"/\"fubak@drooop.com\"/\"" }
{ "email" : "/fubak@drooop.com/" }
{ "email": "\"blablabla@blip.ca\"" }

First document match:

db.problem.find({ email: /^\"/  })

Second document match:

db.problem.find({ email: /^\// })

Third document match

db.problem.find({ email: /^\"/ })

Do not know what you mean otherwise by "having quotes" as that is not valid JSON and by extension is also invalid BSON.