Split a string during MongoDB aggregate

For this, use mapReduce(). Let us first create a collection with documents −

> db.splitString.insertOne({"StudentName":"John Smith"});
{
   "acknowledged" : true,
   "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e0849d925ddae1f53b62206")
}

Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −

> db.splitString.find().pretty();

This will produce the following output −

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5e0849d925ddae1f53b62206"),
   "StudentName" : "John Smith"
}

Here is the query to split a string −

> db.splitString.mapReduce(
...    function() {
...       var StudentLastName = this.StudentName.split(/\s/).reverse()[0].toUpperCase();
...
...       emit({ "StudentLastName": StudentLastName, "FirstObjectId": this._id },this);
...    },
...    function(){},
...    { "out": { "inline": 1 } }
... );

This will produce the following output −

{
   "results" : [
      {
         "_id" : {
            "StudentLastName" : "SMITH",
            "FirstObjectId" : ObjectId("5e0849d925ddae1f53b62206")
         },
         "value" : {
            "_id" : ObjectId("5e0849d925ddae1f53b62206"),
            "StudentName" : "John Smith"
         }
      }
   ],
   "timeMillis" : 32,
   "counts" : {
      "input" : 1,
      "emit" : 1,
      "reduce" : 0,
      "output" : 1
   },
   "ok" : 1
}