Regular Expression case sensitive example – Java

In Java, by default, the regular expression (regex) matching is case sensitive. To enable the regex case insensitive matching, add (?) prefix or enable the case insensitive flag directly in the Pattern.compile().

A regex pattern example.

Pattern = Registrar:\\s(.*)

Case Insensitive, add (?) prefix.

Pattern = (?)Registrar:\\s(.*)

Case Insensitive, add Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE flag.

Pattern.compile("Registrar:\\s(.*)", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);

1. RegEx Example

Example to use regex case insensitive matching to get the “Registrar” information.

package com.mkyong.regex

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class RunExampleTest{
	
	private Pattern registrarPattern = Pattern.compile(REGISTRAR_PATTERN);
	
	//alternative
	/*private Pattern registrarPattern = 
		Pattern.compile(REGISTRAR_PATTERN, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);*/
	
	private Matcher matcher;

	private static final String REGISTRAR_PATTERN = "(?)Registrar:\\s(.*)";
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
	
		String data = "Testing... \n" +
			"Registrar: abc.whois.com\n" +
			"registrar: 123.whois.com\n" +
			"end testing";
		
		RunExampleTest obj = new RunExampleTest();
		List<String> list = obj.getRegistrar(data);
		
		System.out.println(list);
		
	}
	
	private List<String> getRegistrar(String data){
		
		List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
		
		matcher = registrarPattern.matcher(data);

		while (matcher.find()) {
			result.add(matcher.group(1));
		}
		
		return result;
	}
	
}

Output

[abc.whois.com, 123.whois.com]

References

1. Wikipedia : Case Sensitivity
2. Wikipedia : Regular Expression/