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Donovan
Donovan

Reputation: 1

Adding a space character to my regex

I would like some help in getting this regex to accept the space character.

The following regex works ^a|a$|a but this one doesn't ^tips to|tips to$|tips to.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 152

Answers (3)

macf00bar
macf00bar

Reputation: 675

try escaping just the last space (the regex engine will then "see" that "tips to" is one block - at least for the last OR)

^tips to|tips to$|tips\ to

or to be on the safe side group what your searching for

^(tips to)|(tips to)$|(tips to)

[EDIT 1]

so here's the solution the OP is using:

^"tips to"|"tips to"$|"tips to"

Upvotes: 0

Ingo
Ingo

Reputation: 36339

The regular expression that matches 1 space character is 1 space character.

Upvotes: 0

m0skit0
m0skit0

Reputation: 25873

Space is just as-is in a regex (you just put the space character, that should work). Alternatively you can use \s special character. For example, in Perl:

my $test = "Helloworld";
if ($test =~ m/ /)
{
    print("Has space\n");
}

Also if you can specify more what you want to use the regex for, we might be able to help better.

Upvotes: 1

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