# RegExp.prototype.ignoreCase — Description

> RegExp.prototype.ignoreCase has the value true if the i flag was used; otherwise, false.

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RegExp.prototype.ignoreCase has the value true if the i flag was used; otherwise, false. The i flag indicates that case should be ignored while attempting a match in a string. Case-insensitive matching is done by mapping both the expected character set and the matched string to the same casing.

If the regex is Unicode-aware, the case mapping happens through _simple case folding_ specified in CaseFolding.txt. The mapping always maps to a single code point, so it does not map, for example, ß (U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S) to ss (which is _full case folding_, not _simple case folding_). It may however map code points outside the Basic Latin block to code points within it — for example, ſ (U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S) case-folds to s (U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S) and K (U+212A KELVIN SIGN) case-folds to k (U+006B LATIN SMALL LETTER K). Therefore, ſ and K can be matched by /[a-z]/ui.

If the regex is Unicode-unaware, case mapping uses the Unicode Default Case Conversion — the same algorithm used in {{jsxref("String.prototype.toUpperCase()")}}. This algorithm prevents code points outside the Basic Latin block to be mapped to code points within it, so ſ and K mentioned previously are not matched by /[a-z]/i.

Unicode-aware case folding generally folds to lower case, while Unicode-unaware case folding folds to upper case. These two are not perfect reverse operations, so there are some subtle behavior differences. For example, Ω (U+2126 OHM SIGN) and Ω (U+03A9 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA) are both mapped by simple case folding to ω (U+03C9 GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA), so "\u2126" is matched by /[\u03c9]/ui and /[\u03a9]/ui; on the other hand, U+2126 is mapped by Default Case Conversion to itself, while the other two both map to U+03A9, so "\u2126" is matched by neither /[\u03c9]/i nor /[\u03a9]/i.

The set accessor of ignoreCase is undefined. You cannot change this property directly.

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