how to find spaces with a regex?
Jeff Largent
jlargent at imagelinks.com
Mon Feb 23 13:15:42 UTC 2004
Actually \s in perl is any white space: tab, carriage return, formfeed, newline,
or space.
perl -nle 'print if /\ {2,3}/' filename
Vincent wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:25:58 -0800
> "Bevan C. Bennett" <bevan at fulcrummicro.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't think grep actually uses \s to mean a space... at least 'man
>>grep' doesn't appear to mention it... although many other regexps do.
>>
>
>
> I think you may be right, perl certainly uses it and there is a grep -P option for perl regex though.
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