Regex to check whether string starts with, ignoring case differences

Question

I need to check whether a word starts with a particular substring ignoring the case differences. I have been doing this check using the following regex search pattern but th

Answer 1

In this page you can see that modifiers can be added as second parameter. In your case you're are looking for 'i' (Canse insensitive)

//Syntax
var patt=new RegExp(pattern,modifiers);

//or more simply:

var patt=/pattern/modifiers;