$strcasecmp - Amazon DocumentDB
Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
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$strcasecmp

The $strcasecmp operator in Amazon DocumentDB performs a case-insensitive comparison between two strings. It returns an integer value indicating the lexicographic comparison of the two input strings, ignoring case differences.

Parameters

  • string1: The first string to compare.

  • string2: The second string to compare.

Example (MongoDB Shell)

This example demonstrates how to use the $strcasecmp operator to compare desk location strings in a people collection, ignoring case differences.

Create sample documents

db.people.insertMany([
  { "_id": 1, "Desk": "mke233-wi" },
  { "_id": 2, "Desk": "MKE233-WI" },
  { "_id": 3, "Desk": "mke233-wi" }
]);

Query example

db.people.aggregate([
  {
    $project: {
      item: 1,
      compare: { $strcasecmp: ["$Desk", "mke233-wi"] }
    }
  }
]);

Output

{ "_id" : 1, "compare" : 0 }
{ "_id" : 2, "compare" : 0 }
{ "_id" : 3, "compare" : 0 }

The output shows that the comparison between the "Desk" field and the string "mke233-wi" returns 0 for all three documents, indicating that the strings are equal when case is ignored.

Code examples

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Node.js
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function example() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const collection = db.collection('people');

  const result = await collection.aggregate([
    {
      $project: {
        item: 1,
        compare: { $strcasecmp: ["$Desk", "mke233-wi"] }
      }
    }
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);

  await client.close();
}

example();
Python
from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client.test
    collection = db.people

    result = list(collection.aggregate([
        {
            '$project': {
                'item': 1,
                'compare': { '$strcasecmp': ['$Desk', 'mke233-wi'] }
            }
        }
    ]))

    print(result)

    client.close()

example()