Regular Expression Parsing (non case insensitive)

[m1dst]

Hi,

By default, the string parsing for regular expressions is doing case insensitive checks by lowercasing the regex. Is there a reason for this? I am considering making changes to allow regex comparison to me made based on what you supply. EG: ^A\d{1,}.\d{1,}.1.\d{1,}$

If required I will create a pull request but before I do I want to ensure you are happy with the approach.

• I could create a new property similar to _regex but call it _regexraw and then process accordingly.
• I could just modify to not lowercase the string at all and let a user apply the /i to the end if they want it to be case insensitive.
• Something else.

Personally, I think approach 2 (whilst breaking current functionality) is the most logical way forward.

Thoughts?

[deitch]

Huh, I am surprised this is happening. The tests actually tests for successful matches of upper-case against an upper-case input, and lower-case with ignore-case against upper-case input, but never tests for failure of lower-case against an upper-case input without ignore-case.

Would be happy to take a PR on this, option 2 makes the most sense to me as well.