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- [Instructor] So far,

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each of the pattern matching
demonstrations we've done

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has been a case sensitive pattern match.

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However, sometimes you want to ignore case

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and it turns out it's
really easy to do that.

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So here we have a call
to the search function,

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which we just looked at
in the previous video

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in which we're looking for the pattern

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Sam inside of the string SAM WHITE

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and clearly the cases are different here,

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and in our prior demos, that
would result in no match.

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However, the fact that we're
providing the flags argument

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with the re modules ignore case constant

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tells the search function
to do the pattern match

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regardless of the case
sensitivity of the letters

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in either the pattern
or the search string.

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So in this case, if we then
go ahead and test our result.

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So, if indeed, there is a result,

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we will display the
match and as you can see,

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it matched the capital SAM even
though the original pattern

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had a mix of upper case
and lower case letters.