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Re^2: Making a regex case insensitive

by Win (Novice)
on Mar 06, 2007 at 18:34 UTC ( [id://603480]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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Re^3: Making a regex case insensitive
by johngg (Canon) on Mar 06, 2007 at 21:17 UTC
    While the case of '--' and ';' seems to be a matter of debate and jocose comment, you might like to know that you can switch case sensitivity on and off in different parts of a regular expression. You would use constructs like (?i), (?-i), (?i:text) and (?-i:text). The first two switch case insensitivity on and off respectively. The second two just apply their effect, insensitive or sensitive respectively, to the text inside the parentheses. Here is a contrived example that uses a precompiled (qr{ ...}) regular expression that also uses extended syntax, the x, to allow comments and white space inside the expression.

    use strict; use warnings; my @strings = ( q{catFiSHcake}, q{DogFISHcAkE}, q{cATfishCake}, q{caTFISHcaKE}); my $rxMixed = qr {(?xi) # use extended syntax and # make case insensitive (?:cat|dog) # non-capture alternation # of cat or dog (?-i:FISH) # FISH, case sensitive # inside parentheses cake # cake, case insensitive # again }; foreach my $string ( @strings ) { print qq{$string: }, $string =~ $rxMixed ? qq{Match\n} : qq{No match\n}; }

    Here's the output.

    catFiSHcake: No match DogFISHcAkE: Match cATfishCake: No match caTFISHcaKE: Match

    I hope this is of interest.

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

Re^3: Making a regex case insensitive
by davorg (Chancellor) on Mar 06, 2007 at 19:43 UTC
    ok I should start to try and think like a computer

    Thinking like a programmer would be a good start.

    Update: Yes, I know it's all very tempting to downvote this. I'm sure I could have been a lot more tactful. But before you reach for the downvote button, please take a couple of minutes to review Win's posting history.

      Thinking like a programmer would be a good start.

      Fixed.

        I smell a future Turing test winner
Re^3: Making a regex case insensitive
by imp (Priest) on Mar 06, 2007 at 18:36 UTC
    I didn't know there was a lowercase '--' or ';'...
      Sure there is!

      A lowercase "--" is "__" and a lowercase ";" is ",".

      </tongue-in-cheek>


      s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/
Re^3: Making a regex case insensitive
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 06, 2007 at 18:38 UTC
    eh?? What's a lowercase and uppercase ;?
Re^3: Making a regex case insensitive
by scorpio17 (Canon) on Mar 06, 2007 at 18:42 UTC
    This characters will not be modified (nor will numbers, if you had any).
      Nothing is modified, not even letters. Case is preserved.
      >perl -le "'aA' =~ /(.*)/i && print $1 aA

      Only the matching is affected. /i causes lower- and upper-case letters to match lower- and upper-case versions of itself.

      Maybe you were thinking of

      >perl -le "lc('aA') =~ /(.*)/ && print $1 aa
Re^3: Making a regex case insensitive
by thezip (Vicar) on Mar 07, 2007 at 05:34 UTC

    Please Win,

    How do I stop the case insensitivity applying to '--' and ';'?

    Update: ok I should start to try and think like a computer.


    When you say things like this, it really sounds like you're just trolling...


    Where do you want *them* to go today?
Re^3: Making a regex case insensitive
by eric256 (Parson) on Mar 07, 2007 at 16:24 UTC

    Regardless of how you think you could at least test stuff.

    for (0..255) { print "$_=" . chr($_) . "\n" if chr($_) =~ /;/i };

    That should print 59=; out showing that /;/i is only matching ; and not lowercase ;, whatever that would be.

    print uc(';'), lc(';'); #outputs ;;

    FYI I like to use perl -dex (as recommended by tye I think) which gives you a nice way to run perl code and see its results.


    ___________
    Eric Hodges

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