Actors 2 Hops Away

Variable length traversal

Update this query to return the names of actors that are 2 hops away from Robert Blake using the ACTED_IN relationship.

cypher

MATCH (p:Person {name: 'Robert Blake'})-[:ACTED_IN??]-(others:Person)
RETURN others.name

How many actors are returned in the result?

Hint

Use the :ACTED_IN*2 specification for the relationship.

Solution

The answer is 12.

Run the following query to see the result:

cypher

MATCH (p:Person {name: 'Robert Blake'})-[:ACTED_IN*2]-(others:Person)
RETURN others.name

In this challenge, you wrote a query that uses varying length paths.

In the next challenge, you will write another query.