Test/match string starting/ending/containing using regex or filter operators

Yes of course !

My goal was to have a customizable nav menu with sub menu

Based on this answer: Dropdown menu for main nav - #5 by denvergeeks
I decided to create a naming convention for my tags like : activity-bike, activity-trail, activity-swim, etc.

And from the Ghost back office I wanted to be able to create a nav called Activities[activities] and the theme would know it has to fetch tags starting with the word between brackets.
Simple dev but cannot find a way to match on the label…