Capital letters issue with 'like'

Hello
Maybe it is simple but I cant find solution for this.
For example I have table pets with column name
"name" | "category"
1. Tomcat | cat
2. tomy | cat
3. toM | cat
4. tim | cat
5. tOmi | cat
query
select name from pets where name like '%to%'
results will give me
2. tomy
3. toM
but i want as results all names wit 'to' no matter if it has capital letters or not
1. Tomcat
2. tomy
3. toM
5. tOmi
How should i write this query ?
please help

Hi,
Salski wrote:
but I also have to remember to convert entered string in inputtext to uppercase as well
someString.toUpperCase()You can also do that on the back-end, if that's better for you:
select name
from pets
where UPPER (name) like '%' || UPPER (someString) || '%'
Thanks all for respondGlad to help!

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