How do I match a regex pattern in case-insensitive?

By Wayan in Regex 0 Comment

Finding the next subsequence of the input sequence that matches the pattern while ignoring the case of the string in regular expression can simply apply by create a pattern using compile(String regex, int flags) method and specifies a second argument with PATTERN.CASE_INSENSITIVE constant.

package org.kodejava.regex;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;

public class RegexIgnoreCaseDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String sentence =
                "The quick brown fox and BROWN tiger jumps over the lazy dog";

        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("brown", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(sentence);

        while (matcher.find()) {
            System.out.format("Text \"%s\" found at %d to %d.%n",
                    matcher.group(), matcher.start(), matcher.end());
        }
    }
}

Here is the result of the program:

Text "brown" found at 10 to 15.
Text "BROWN" found at 24 to 29.
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