Conditions and Case Sensitivity

natty_dread has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can I do a pattern match for a group of letters to be contained anywhere within a word.....irrespective of case sensitivity. Por ejemplo...

if ($line =~ /abcd/) {
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I need to pull this pattern if it's found in either case.. One Luv

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Re: Conditions and Case Sensitivity by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Oct 14, 2003 at 15:44 UTC
You're almost there. The /i flag gives you case insensitivity: `if ($line =~ /abcd/i) {` After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Conditions and Case Sensitivity by pg (Canon) on Oct 14, 2003 at 16:23 UTC
If the question actually means "to match any character within a group of characters", not "a sequence of characters" (it at least sounds not very clear to me), then you may want to use `[]`, see the following example: `my $line = "abd"; if ($line =~ /abcd/i) { print "matched the first case\n"; } if ($line =~ /[abcd]/i) { print "matched the second case\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]