Regular expressions - detecting whitespace

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Aug 13 15:09:01 EDT 2003


On 8/13/03 2:33 PM, Jim Witte wrote:

>   What kind of regular expression can I use to detect if a string is 
> entirely whitespace (space, tab, or return)?  I tried "^([\s|\t|\n]*)" 
> but that didn't work.

If you aren't set on using regex, there's a fast native way that I 
always use:

   if the number of words in myString = 0 then...


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