Split by a word (case insensitive)

Question

If I want to take

\"hi, my name is foo bar\"

and split it on \"foo\", and have that split be case insensitive (split on any of

Answer 1

You can use the re.split function with the re.IGNORECASE flag (or re.I for short):

>>> import re
>>> test = "hI MY NAME iS FoO bar"
>>> re.split("foo", test, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
['hI MY NAME iS ', ' bar']
>>>