Regular expression | Mongodb help required

I must be doing something really stupid and need help to realize that :(. I am using a simple regex like below to find out all matching documents where short name starts with passed name. Now somehow this does not work as i get out of memory because i suspect all documents are getting returned. I tried to put limit in query but that also has not worked .

results=mongoTemplate.find(Query.query(new Criteria("short_name").regex( "/^" + name +".*/i")), MongoInstrument.class);


Any insights?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Mridul

I must be doing something really stupid and need help to realize that :(. I am using a simple regex like below to find out all matching documents where short name starts with passed name. Now somehow this does not work as i get out of memory because i suspect all documents are getting returned. I tried to put limit in query but that also has not worked .

results=mongoTemplate.find(Query.query(new Criteria("short_name").regex( "/^" + name +".*/i")), MongoInstrument.class);


Any insights?

Thanks

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All right, so short answer is don't use "/" because Java does not understand them so this works
Criteria crt =new Criteria("short_name").regex( "^" + name +".*")