RegEx to capture all variations of the same search time

Asked Mar 06 '20 at 09:26

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I want to capture a few search terms customers might search for using RegEx, so I can direct them all to the same page.

For example, if the search term was house plant, i'd want to capture: 'House Plant', 'house plant', 'houseplant', 'Houseplant', 'house-plant', 'House-Plant' ect

I've been using a RegEx tester to try and figure it out, but why does this expression, not capture 'houseplant' or 'house plant': /house(\s|\S)plant/g

It only matches 'house plant' and not 'houseplant'

Also I can't find anything for the upper or lower case options - is RegEx not case sensitive?

asked Mar 06 '20 at 09:26

user2953989

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You need to use `?` after `(\s|\S)`. Or just use `[\s\S]?`. or `.?` with a dotall option on. Or, `\W?` if the char should be a non-word char (to exclude `houserplant`-like matches) – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 06 '20 at 09:27
For the case-sensitivity option, which language is the regex being used in? – Andrew Morton Mar 06 '20 at 09:29
Javascript/React – user2953989 Mar 06 '20 at 09:29
@user2953989 [RegEx Ignore Case](https://stackoverflow.com/q/24395542/1115360). – Andrew Morton Mar 06 '20 at 09:30
Thank you both! I use \W? and the ignore case and that works perfectly :) – user2953989 Mar 06 '20 at 09:32

RegEx to capture all variations of the same search time

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