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I am looking for a javascript regex for whitespace.
I am checking several different string in a loop and I need to locate the strings that have the big white space in them.



The white space string is built in a loop, like this...



please read this code as var whitespace =   then the loop just concats more non breaking spaces on it.



var whitespace =  

for (var x = 0; x < 20; x++) {
whitespace += &nbsp;
}


then it is used later on in a string concat.



sometext += whitespace + someData;


I need to identify the strings that contain whitespace (20 spaces).



Or should I just be doing a contains(whitespace) or something similar.



Any help is appreciated.



Cheers,
~ck in San Diego


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If you have defined whitespace as 20 spaces, you can do



var input = whitespace + someData;
if(input.indexOf(whitespace) != -1)
{
//input contains whitespace.
}


There is no need to use regex when you can do without it.


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