I am trying to do a regex search with ed.
e.g.
Is there an expression that will match any case variation on the word "prop"
prop, PROP, Prop, etc. ?
I found the following additional references
which refers to
Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 9.3, Basic Regular Expressions
The ed regular expression syntax, being a sort of a POSIX regular expression standard, does not seem to support case insensitive modifiers.
You may use bracket expressions containing both upper- and lowercase letter variants:
[Pp][Rr][Oo][Pp]
where [Pp]
matches a p
or P
, etc.
If you plan to match prop
as a whole word, you will need to use \<
in front (it matches the beginning of a word) and a \>
at the end of the expression (it matches the end of a word).