Re: HowTo: directory-files and friends and case-insensitive match

[raman <raman@google.com>]

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

As I said, I've implemented myself a solution and moved on. That said, I
do not entirely buy Eli's "this is a large problem that needs to be
solved first" argument -- if that were the case, variables like
completion-ignore-case and   read-file-name-completion-ignore-case would
not exist either -- but I digress ...>>>>>> raman  <raman@google.com> writes:
>
>> I'm specifically trying to match file extensions in a case insensitive
>> manner in this instance, so yes a somewhat more confined problem. Given the
>> complexity I'll just go ahead and construct the regexp to match lower and
>> upper case.
>
> To make any variation on .jpeg:
>
>     (directory-files DIR t "\\.[Jj][Pp][Ee]?[Gg]\\'")
>
> You could write a helper function to "case insensitize" regexps, if one
> doesn't already exist somewhere.

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