How do I do a case insensitive regular expression in Go?

Question

Now, of course, I could write my regular expression to handle both cases, such as regexp.Compile(\"[a-zA-Z]\"), but my regular expression is constructed from a

Answer 1

You can set a case-insensitive flag as the first item in the regex.

You do this by adding "(?i)" to the beginning of a regex.

reg, err := regexp.Compile("(?i)"+strings.Replace(s.Name, " ", "[ \\._-]", -1))

For a fixed regex it would look like this.

r := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)CaSe`)

For more information about flags, search the regexp/syntax package documentation (or the syntax documentation) for the term "flags".