Indirect answer to your question: don't do this. You don't need to make a sub to translate a name into something that you can put in a regexp. Just put it in the regexp with \Q and \E (see quotemeta in perfunc docs). Also, as several folks stated, use the /i modifier on your regexp.

So... do not try to do: 

my $munged_name = Regch($name);
$thing =~ /$munged_name/;

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Rather... try this: 
$thing =~ /\Q$name\E/i;

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How much easier is that? Also, you learned an important thing about perl. :-D

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However, if you want a direct and exact answer to your question, you could do this: 

sub Regch {
   return "(?i:\Q$_[0]\E)";
}

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Read the docs on perlre to learn more about why.

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In reply to Re: Capitalization and Regex by etcshadow
in thread Capitalization and Regex by pekkhum

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