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Note:\S+ is the same as [^\s+]

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Re: Re: Re: Inefficient regex
by sutch (Curate) on Mar 05, 2003 at 20:14 UTC
    Thelonius, your note is not correct:

    \s+ - matches one or more space characters
    [^\s+] - matches one character that is not a space nor a '+'
    [^\s]+ - (what you may have meant) matches one or more non-space characters.

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