$toUpper

The $toUpper operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to convert a string to uppercase.

Parameters

• expression: The string expression to convert to uppercase.

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates the usage of the $toUpper operator to convert the Desk field to uppercase.

Create sample documents

db.locations.insertMany([
  { "_id": 1, "Desk": "düsseldorf-bvv-021" },
  { "_id": 2, "Desk": "munich-hgg-32a" }
]);

Query example

db.locations.aggregate([
  { $project: { item: { $toUpper: "$Desk" } } }
]);

Output

{ "_id" : 1, "item" : "DüSSELDORF-BVV-021" }
{ "_id" : 2, "item" : "MUNICH-HGG-32A" }

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('locations');

  const result = await collection.aggregate([
    { $project: { item: { $toUpper: '$Desk' } } }
  ]).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['locations']

    result = list(collection.aggregate([
        { '$project': { 'item': { '$toUpper': '$Desk' } } }
    ]))

    print(result)

    client.close()

example()