Match Space but only inside word characters

Question

I want to match on \s inside a string but not match if the \s occurs before the string.

 

 

Answer 1

Can you provide examples of what you want to match vs what you don't want to match?

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John Grove - TFD Group, Senior Software Engineer, EI Division, http://www.tfdg.com

Answer 2

I want to capture "not on my life" in this string: "        not on my life"

Answer 3

exactly this? I am guessing that your sentence does not start like "not on my life". 

I am also guessing it is not exactly this:

String pattern = @"not\son\smy\slife";

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John Grove - TFD Group, Senior Software Engineer, EI Division, http://www.tfdg.com

Answer 4

No, it is an example of ignoring leading spaces but capturing spaces in between.

Answer 5

ignore leading spaces by not capturing them, or if you must capture them then encapsulate your "real" match in a group.

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John Grove - TFD Group, Senior Software Engineer, EI Division, http://www.tfdg.com

Answer 6

Hi,

I agree with John...

Patter (example): ^\s*(?<words>\w.+\w)\s*$

Options: Multiline

It returns a match for each line. In the named group "words" there are all words matched. At the beginning and at the end of the line there could be whitespace characters...

Multiple blanks between two words are matched by this pattern, too.

Greetings

 

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Wolfgang Kluge
gehirnwindung.de