What does "\S" equal in Regex?
I have a regex:
/<((?:https?\:\/\/)*(?:[^\/?#])\/*\S*)>/ig;
trying to match:
What does \S equal? e.g.: [\w\d?:"-_]
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I'd be *very* curious to hear an explanation from whoever nominated this for reopening. I can't imagine what the case for reopening would be. – Adi Inbar Nov 20 '14 at 04:03
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\S matches anything except whitespace.
Regard as the opposite of \s (which matches whitespace).
(Personally I find \S obfuscating for this reason, particularly when viewing in some fonts where S and s look too similar. I prefer [^\s]).
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Actually, it means "any one character that's not a whitespace character". The phrase "no whitespaces" is so ambiguous, it's impossible to tell what you meant by it. – Alan Moore Nov 14 '14 at 08:39