Search in textfiles?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin Johansson wrote:
> this code I rote, but what can be done if big letters should not be threated
> different than small letters?

convert both strings to the same case:

    index = string.find(string.lower(textstring), string.lower(word))

another solution is to use case-insensitive regular expressions, but
I'm not sure it's worth the extra coding in this case.

    match = re.search("(?i)" + re.escape(word), textstring)
    if match:
        index = match.start()

Cheers /F