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Posted on by eetuRobo 4,579 Super User 2026 Season 1

I want to find element on web page that has my string variable in it. But I don't want it to be case sensitive. So I would want to use Regular expression. How do I do that?

I tried this as an example:

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That (?i) is supposed to not care for case sensitivity. Is there something I am doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

 

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    Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @eetuRobo 

     

    if you remove the (?i) from regex expression value, it would work 

     

    see below

     

    i need click Start button

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1706124780106.png

     

    selector is like below

    Nived_Nambiar_1-1706124863164.png

     

     

    Now if change the comparision mode for text to regular expression match like below

    Nived_Nambiar_2-1706124905117.png

     

    It will still able to detect the button 🙂

     

    When using variables, make sure to enable the Text editor button once regex is enabled as i shared above !

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1706126993981.png

     

    else with variables it won't work without enabling text editor

     

    Hope it helps !

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    eetuRobo 4,579 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Thank you Nived_Nambiar!

    I thought you would have to specify what you want the regex to do but I guess you don't as long as you just want it to find the text in what ever case.

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