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Service: documentdb · 2026-03-31 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/regexFindAll.md

Summary

Added new documentation page for the $regexFindAll operator in Amazon DocumentDB, including syntax, parameters, MongoDB shell example, and code examples in Node.js and Python.

Security assessment

This change adds standard feature documentation for a new operator ($regexFindAll) with no mention of security vulnerabilities, patches, or security incidents. The examples show regular expression usage for data extraction, which is a standard database operation. The connection examples include TLS parameters (tls=true, tlsCAFile) but these are standard secure connection practices, not new security features being documented.

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+[Documentation](/index.html)[Amazon DocumentDB](/documentdb/index.html)[Developer Guide](what-is.html)
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+Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
+
+# $regexFindAll
+
+Introduced in 5.0
+
+The `$regexFindAll` operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to perform regular expression matching on string fields within documents. It allows you to search for and extract specific substrings that match a given regular expression pattern, returning all matches of the regular expression.
+
+**Parameters**
+
+  * `input`: The string field or expression to search.
+
+  * `regex`: The regular expression pattern to match.
+
+  * `options`: (optional) An object that specifies optional parameters for the regular expression, such as case-sensitivity and multi-line matching. Supported options are `i` (case-insensitive) and `m` (multi-line).
+
+
+
+
+## Example (MongoDB Shell)
+
+The following example demonstrates how to use the `$regexFindAll` operator to extract all letter sequences from the `email` field.
+
+**Create sample documents**
+    
+    
+    db.users.insertMany([
+      { _id: 1, name: "John Doe", email: "[email protected]", phone: "555-1234" },
+      { _id: 2, name: "Jane Roe", email: "[email protected]", phone: "555-5678" },
+      { _id: 3, name: "Carlos Salazar", email: "[email protected]", phone: "555-3456" },
+      { _id: 4, name: "Saanvi Sarkar", email: "[email protected]", phone: "555-7890" }
+      
+    ]);
+
+**Query example**
+    
+    
+    db.users.aggregate([
+      {
+        $project: {
+          name: 1,
+          emailMatches: {
+            $regexFindAll: { input: '$email', regex: '[a-z]+', options: 'i' }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    ])
+
+**Output**
+    
+    
+    [
+      {
+        _id: 1,
+        name: 'John Doe',
+        emailMatches: [
+          { match: 'john', idx: 0, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'example', idx: 5, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'com', idx: 13, captures: [] }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        _id: 2,
+        name: 'Jane Roe',
+        emailMatches: [
+          { match: 'jane', idx: 0, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'example', idx: 5, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'com', idx: 13, captures: [] }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        _id: 3,
+        name: 'Carlos Salazar',
+        emailMatches: [
+          { match: 'carlos', idx: 0, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'example', idx: 7, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'com', idx: 15, captures: [] }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        _id: 4,
+        name: 'Saanvi Sarkar',
+        emailMatches: [
+          { match: 'saanvi', idx: 0, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'example', idx: 7, captures: [] },
+          { match: 'com', idx: 15, captures: [] }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+
+**Note:** If your query is using Amazon DocumentDB planner version 1, you must use a hint to utilize an index. Without a hint, the query may perform a collection scan. To check your planner version and learn more about using hints, see the [Amazon DocumentDB Query Planner documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide/query-planner.html).
+
+## Code examples
+
+To view a code example for using the `$regexFindAll` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
+
+Node.js
+    
+
+Here's an example of using the `$regexFind` operator in a Node.js application:
+    
+    
+    const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
+    
+    async function main() {
+      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 users = db.collection('users');
+    
+      const results = await users.aggregate([
+        {
+          $project: {
+            name: 1,
+            emailMatches: {
+              $regexFindAll: { input: "$email", regex: "[a-z]+", options: "i" }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]).toArray();
+      
+      console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
+    
+      await client.close();
+    }
+    
+    main();
+
+Python
+    
+
+Here's an example of using the `$regexFind` operator in a Python application:
+    
+    
+    from pymongo import MongoClient
+    
+    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
+    db = client['test']
+    users = db['users']
+    
+    results = list(users.aggregate([
+        { 
+            "$project": { 
+                "name": 1,
+                "emailMatches": { 
+                    "$regexFindAll": { 
+                        "input": "$email", 
+                        "regex": "[a-z]+", 
+                        "options": "i" 
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    ]))
+    
+    print(results)
+    
+    client.close()
+
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+
+$regexFind
+
+$regexMatch
+
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