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Case insensitive Regex without using RegexOptions enumeration

Asked 2010-03-13T20:46:51.097
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Is it possible to do a case insensitive match in C# using the Regex class without setting the RegexOptions.IgnoreCase flag?

What I would like to be able to do is within the regex itself define whether or not I want the match operation to be done in a case insensitive manner.

I would like this regex, taylor, to match on the following values:

  • Taylor
  • taylor
  • taYloR
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(?i)taylor matches all of the inputs I specified without having to set the RegexOptions.IgnoreCase flag.

To force case sensitivity I can do (?-i)taylor.

It looks like other options include:

  • i, case insensitive
  • s, single line mode
  • m, multi line mode
  • x, free spacing mode
answered 2010-03-13T20:51:06.890

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