If you aren't fussed about leading and trailing spaces, you can modify the regex thusly: 
/^\s*\w{5}\s\w{4}\s*$/

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</code> Update: Yeah, I know the question was pretty explicit that he wanted to match exactly a 5 letter word followed by a 4 letter word. The question had already been answered so I posted this in case it's of use to anyone else.

It happens occasionally that you think - I want a regex to allow x and and make it too unforgiving to allow for mistakes in user input. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the code I posted is incorrect?

Update 2: Fastolfe pointed out that I used character classes when I didn't need them so I took them out. He was quite right - not sure why I used them, but I don't think they did any harm, I originally posted: /^[\s]*\w{5}\s\w{4}[\s]*$/

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