Collections Like Operator : GameSparks

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Andy Sattler

started a topic about 4 years ago

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out how to use the like operator in a collection and the following works to find any levels that contain "Aw" in them:

var Levels = Spark.runtimeCollection('levels').find({"LevelName" : /Aw/});

However, how do I do this while passing in a variable? If I change it to

var Levels = Spark.runtimeCollection('levels').find({"LevelName" : '/'+ 'Aw' + '/'});

or

var Levels = Spark.runtimeCollection('levels').find({"LevelName" : VariableLevelName});

it doesn't work.

Thanks

Andy

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Customer Support said about 4 years ago

Hi Andy,

If you pass this in as a string variable you can convert it to a Regular Expression. For example if you use the following it should work.

//create an event with a string attribute called "value", the string is what you want to search for

//here myValue would = "Aw"
var myValue = Spark.getData().value;

//convert it to a RegExp
var re = new RegExp(myValue);   //re = /Aw/

//then use it in the search
var Levels = Spark.runtimeCollection('levels').find({"LevelName" : re});

Try that out and let me know how you get on, if you have any other question just let me know.

Thanks,

Liam

Customer Support

said about 4 years ago

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