From: Peter Vanderhaden <bostonantifan@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T02:01:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression newbie question about upper & lower c

Thank you much.  Does the i at the end of the expression indicate 
case-insensitivity?

SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:
> 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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