How do I ignore case when using startsWith and endsWith in Java? [duplicate]

Here's my code:

public static void rightSel(Scanner scanner,char t)
{
  /*if (!stopping)*/System.out.print(": ");
    if (scanner.hasNextLine())
    {
     String orInput = scanner.nextLine;
        if (orInput.equalsIgnoreCase("help")
        {
            System.out.println("The following commands are available:");
            System.out.println("    'help'      : displays this menu");
            System.out.println("    'stop'      : stops the program");
            System.out.println("    'topleft'   : makes right triangle alligned left and to the top");
            System.out.println("    'topright'  : makes right triangle alligned right and to the top");
            System.out.println("    'botright'  : makes right triangle alligned right and to the bottom");
            System.out.println("    'botleft'   : makes right triangle alligned left and to the bottom");
        System.out.println("To continue, enter one of the above commands.");
     }//help menu
     else if (orInput.equalsIgnoreCase("stop")
     {
        System.out.println("Stopping the program...");
            stopping    = true;
     }//stop command
     else
     {
        String rawInput = orInput;
        String cutInput = rawInput.trim();
        if (

I'd like to allow the user some leeway as to how they can enter the commands, things like: Top Right, top-right, TOPRIGHT, upper left, etc. To that end, I'm trying to, at that last if (, check if cutInput starts with either "top" or "up" AND check if cutInput ends with either "left" or "right", all while being case-insensitive. Is this at all possible?

The end goal of this is to allow the user to, in one line of input, pick from one of four orientations of a triangle. This was the best way I could think of to do that, but I'm still quite new to programming in general and might be over complicating things. If I am, and it turns there's a simpler way, please let me know.

Like this:

aString.toUpperCase().startsWith("SOMETHING");
aString.toUpperCase().endsWith("SOMETHING");

The accepted answer is wrong. If you look at the implementation of String.equalsIgnoreCase() you will discover that you need to compare both lowercase and uppercase versions of the Strings before you can conclusively return false.

Here is my own version, based on http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Data-Type/CaseinsensitivecheckifaStringstartswithaspecifiedprefix.htm:

/**
 * String helper functions.
 *
 * @author Gili Tzabari
 */
public final class Strings
{
    /**
     * @param str    a String
     * @param prefix a prefix
     * @return true if {@code start} starts with {@code prefix}, disregarding case sensitivity
     */
    public static boolean startsWithIgnoreCase(String str, String prefix)
    {
        return str.regionMatches(true, 0, prefix, 0, prefix.length());
    }

    public static boolean endsWithIgnoreCase(String str, String suffix)
    {
        int suffixLength = suffix.length();
        return str.regionMatches(true, str.length() - suffixLength, suffix, 0, suffixLength);
    }

    /**
     * Prevent construction.
     */
    private Strings()
    {
    }
}