using regular expressions to do case insensitive matches

[Jonathan Miltner]

hi
i am somewhat new to using regex in java and i can't seem to figure the following problem out:

i have 2 files that I am trying to process....

File 1 contains long lines of text with first and last names and various other stuff

File 2 contains tab separated info in the following order:
LastName FirstName Email

so for example i have:

line in file 1 reads:
1003JonMiltnerConfused

then in file 2 i have something like
miltnerjon [email protected]

------------- below is my current process:

system reads info from file 2
creates pattern from last name:

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(last_name);
 
make matcher:
//'line' is the line of text from file 1 that i am trying to search
 
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(line);

if (matcher.find()) {
 
Pattern pattern2 = Pattern.compile(first_name);
matcher = pattern.matcher(line);

if (matcher.find()) {
           //then i process the data...
        }
}
}

So how would i expand this to do the reg-ex matching without being sensitive to case ?

thanks so much, i havent been able to find any docs on the web that explain this....


- jon

[Jonathan Miltner]

ok nevermind
i checked the api docs one last time
i guess i should just set the CASE_INSENSITIVE flag when making the pattern...