Javascript Matching - case-insensitive

Question

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Case insensitive regex in javascript

Values could be:

- Mike liam

- Joe mike

- Mondal mike effron

I want to mach every value contains 'mike' - case-insensitive

So, I tried:

var x = "mike";
if(valeu.match(new RegExp(x, "g"))
alert('success');

but that didn't work. any ideas ?

Answer 1

You want the i flag (for "insensitive"):

if(valeu.match(new RegExp(x, "ig"))
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