diff --git a/content/search-github/github-code-search/understanding-github-code-search-syntax.md b/content/search-github/github-code-search/understanding-github-code-search-syntax.md index f7365ecdbe1f..53532e9c1750 100644 --- a/content/search-github/github-code-search/understanding-github-code-search-syntax.md +++ b/content/search-github/github-code-search/understanding-github-code-search-syntax.md @@ -317,4 +317,8 @@ If code search guesses wrong, you can always get the search you wanted by using ## Case sensitivity -By default, code search is case-insensitive. Searching for `True` will include results for _uppercase_ `TRUE` and _lowercase_ `true`. You can do case-sensitive searches by using a regular expression with case insensitivity turned off, for example `(?-i)True`. +By default, code search is case-insensitive, and results will include both uppercase and lowercase results. You can do case-sensitive searches by using a regular expression with case insensitivity turned off. For example, to search for the string "True", you would use: + +```text +/(?-i)True/ +```