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Use square brackets [] to match any characters in a set. Use \w to match any single alphanumeric character: 0-9 , a-z , A-Z , and _ (underscore). Use \d to match any single digit. Use \s to match any single whitespace character.
To match a character having special meaning in regex, you need to use a escape sequence prefix with a backslash ( \ ). E.g., \. matches "." ; regex \+ matches "+" ; and regex \( matches "(" . You also need to use regex \\ to match "\" (back-slash).
The \D metacharacter matches non-digit characters.
Simply put: \b allows you to perform a “whole words only” search using a regular expression in the form of \bword\b. A “word character” is a character that can be used to form words. All characters that are not “word characters” are “non-word characters”.
The following should suffice:
[^ ]
If you want to expand that to anything but white-space (line breaks, tabs, spaces, hard spaces):
[^\s]
or
\S # Note this is a CAPITAL 'S'!
\s matches any white-space character\S matches any non-white-space character[^ ] matches anything but a space character.Pick whichever is most appropriate.
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