Use the all positional operator in MongoDB to update all elements in an array

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MongoDB provides a special update operator $[] to apply an update operation to all elements in an array belonging to matching documents.

With the following data inserted into a collection called games:

db.games.insertMany(
    {
        name: "Genshin Impact",
        reviewScores: [8, 6, 9, 5]
    },
    {
        name: "Factorio",
        reviewScores: [7, 7, 10, 8]
    },
    {
        name: "Bloodborne",
        reviewScores: [9, 8, 9, 9]
    }
)

For every game that does NOT have a score of 10 in its reviews, increase all the review scores by 1.

db.games.updateMany(
    { reviewScores: { $ne: 10 } },
    { $inc: { "reviewScores.$[]": 1 } }
)

Use the find method to read all the data back out to view the results:

{
    name: "Genshin Impact",
    reviewScores: [9, 7, 10, 6]
},
{
    name: "Factorio",
    reviewScores: [7, 7, 10, 8]
},
{
    name: "Bloodborne",
    reviewScores: [10, 9, 10, 10]
}

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