How can I perform a case-insensitive filter on a JTable?

Question

I am making a table with a text field below it where you can type in a word to filter the table. It works, but what I want to do is be able to filter it with the word typed in, but ignoring the case of the word. Is there a way to accomplish this without creating a custom RowFilter?

You can run this SCCEE to see what I'm talking about. I want to be able to type in usa and it'll filter USA.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JApplet;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.RowFilter;
import javax.swing.table.TableModel;
import javax.swing.table.TableRowSorter;

public class TestTableSortFilter extends JApplet {

    private String[] columnNames
            = {"Country", "Capital", "Population in Millions", "Democracy"};

    private Object[][] data = {
        {"USA", "Washington DC", 280, true},
        {"Canada", "Ottawa", 32, true},
        {"United Kingdom", "London", 60, true},
        {"Germany", "Berlin", 83, true},
        {"France", "Paris", 60, true},
        {"Norway", "Oslo", 4.5, true},
        {"India", "New Delhi", 1046, true}
    };

    private JTable jTable = new JTable(data, columnNames);

    private TableRowSorter<TableModel> rowSorter
            = new TableRowSorter<>(jTable.getModel());

    private JTextField jtfFilter = new JTextField();
    private JButton jbtFilter = new JButton("Filter");

    public TestTableSortFilter() {
        jTable.setRowSorter(rowSorter);

        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
        panel.add(new JLabel("Specify a word to match:"),
                BorderLayout.WEST);
        panel.add(jtfFilter, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        add(panel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        add(new JScrollPane(jTable), BorderLayout.CENTER);


        jtfFilter.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                String text = jtfFilter.getText();

                if (text.trim().length() == 0) {
                    rowSorter.setRowFilter(null);
                } else {
                    rowSorter.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter(text));
                }
            }
        }); 
    }
}

Is there maybe something I can pass to the regexFilter(text), that will give me the desired result?

rowSorter.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter(text));

Answer 1

Add the standard regex case-insensitivity flag:

rowSorter.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter("(?i)" + text));

I've tested this with your SSCCE (thanks for providing that) and it works.