From: SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercoolness@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T01:51:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression newbie question about upper & lower case

Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
> I want to check for both upper & lower case answers when a user keys in
> a response to a question, but I haven't been able to find an example of
> the syntax.  What I'm looking for is something like this:
> 
>     If $ans = [Yy]*
> 
> I know this syntax isn't correct, but what I want it to do is accept Y,
> y, yes, YeS, yippee, etc.  Would someone mind posting an example?
> Thanks....

something like

a =~ /^y/i

will do

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