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How to get PLY to ignore case of a regular expression?

I'm working on a simple translator from SQL INSERT statements to a dataset XML file to be used with DbUnit.

My current definition looks like this:

def t_INSERT(token):
    r'INSERT\s+INTO'
    return token

Now, I want to support case insensitive commands of SQL, for example, accept all of INSERT INTO, Insert Into, insert into and iNsErT inTO as the same thing.

I wonder if there is a way to PLY use re.I so that it will ignore the case, or yet another alternative to write the rule that I'm not familiar with.

Solution

  • You can inject flags into regexp using (?) syntax. Try '(?i)INSERT\s+INTO', it adds the flag to ignore case.