ruby string match ignore case

ruby regex string case match
ekynox picture ekynox · Dec 10, 2011 · Viewed 14k times · Source

I am trying to create a match query which selects text from a string between two words. I can't seem to figure out how to make the search case insensitive. For example consider the text:

contents = "cat
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dog"

the ruby code to return me the latin code between the words cat and dog is

contents.match(/cat(.*)dog/m)[1].strip

At the moment my "match" query only works if cat and dog are lowercase but I need to cater for if cat and dog are uppercase or the first letter is upper case.

Not quite sure where to stick the /i operator.

Answer

coder_tim picture coder_tim · Dec 10, 2011

Next to the "m":

contents.match(/cat(.*)dog/im)[1].strip

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