# Case-insensitive prefix/suffix stripping

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-insensitive-prefix-suffix-stripping/109871>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** strings, regex\
**Created:** [February 7, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-insensitive-prefix-suffix-stripping/109871 "2024-02-07T11:44:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-insensitive-prefix-suffix-stripping/109871/2 "2024-02-07T12:38:37Z")

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> [@Palli](#):
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> Neither works, but could be added, no breaking change, but my issue is that a straightforward extension is problematic. […] But this would miss some cases such as “hTtP”. I.e. there are exponentially many cases, here 16 to check for if chop functions aren’t made case-insensitive.

For that sort of thing you could use a regex: `replace(s, r"^https?://"i => "")` instead of `chopprefix`, for example.

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