Forums Scripts & Popups Case insensitive search in a text file

Hey guys, I have little to no experience with this language, but I'm managing to temper with code well enough.

I'm trying to write to commands that will search a text file for a specific text entered by a user and input that text into a variable, but I want the search to be case insensitive.

current code looks like this:



$2- is the string of text input by the user
The text file is a list of songs, each song in a different line, words starting with capital letters.

At the moment it works perfectly fine. Thing is it can only find the text i want if I use upper case letters correctly. How can I make it case insensitive? Thx in advance.

$read by default is not case sensitive, but you used the 'r' switch, which makes the search a regular expression, and regular expression are by default case sensitive.
Either don't use a regular expression, of if you need to use a regular expression, use the /i modifier, which makes it case insensitive

Where in the code would you exactly place the /i modifier?

What I'm trying to do is search a string, thats saved in a variable, in a text file while keeping it case insensitive and return the whole line that the term was found at.

If $2- is from the on text event, then it is likely not a regular expression, it looks like you don't know about regular expression, in this case you should not be using it, you should not be using the 'r' switch in $read.
So forget about this /i modifier and simply use $read(catalog.txt,n,$2-)

Sorry, use $read(catalog.txt,wn,$2-)