Regex support for matching a value

[joeworkman]

It would be interesting to have a way of using regular expressions inside of the query statements.

[deitch]

It isn't that hard. The search object is, well, a JS object, which means that it can include any valid JS type: string, number, boolean, but also Date (already supports it) and regex. You could do

{name: /john/I}

We already have some partial regex support implemented.

• When you set _text, it matches any part of the word.
• If the field is a string, it ignores case
• If you set _start, it matches the beginning of the word
• If you set _end, it matches the end of the word

It actually does the above using RegExp internally, see here

Definitely open for a PR for that. Just needs:

• test cases (probably could use the data already in test and more cases)
• README
• code