From: Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...>
Date: 2002-08-14T08:46:13+09:00
Subject: Re: HT make gsub not case sensitive...

add an 'i' after the expression.
ie:   
some_big_string = 'SOME_substring_1 foo bar'

some_big_string.gsub!(/soMe_sUbString_1/i, 'xxx')
puts some_big_string            ->   xxx foo bar

Kurt Euler wrote:

>Ruby experts:
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>Please advise how I can make a gsub operation NOT case sensitive, so that for example this command:
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>   some_big_string.gsub!(/soMe_sUbString_1/, some_substring_2)
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>would do a replacement of all occurances of "soMe_sUbString_1" regardless of the case of the target string in some_big_string. Eg, the text "SOME_SUBSTRING_1" in some_big_string WOULD be replaced by "some_substring_2" using the command (or technique) I'm looking for.
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>Thanks.
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>-Kurt Euler
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