Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions

3.2. Modifiers: Case Sensitivity and Global Matching

Regular expressions are case-sensitive by default. To ignore case, use the modifier i (for "ignore"). Thus, /pounds?/ finds pound and pounds, and /pounds?/i finds Pound and Pounds as well. This modifier can be combined with the global modifier: use /pounds?/gi to find words globally and case-insensitively. The other available modifier in JavaScript, g, was illustrated earlier: /pounds?/g matches every instance of pound and pounds, in a text, /pounds?/ finds just the first occurrence. The two modifiers can be combined to match globally and case-insensitively: /pounds?/gi (the order of these modifiers doesn't matter).