CONSTR(1,29) = TEXTHERE, TEXTHERE, TEXTHERE, TEXTHERE, 90.0, (10 * 0.01 /TEXTHERE), ! P.O. TEXTHERE

I have that line and many others like it, I need to be able to match no matter what whitespace is included in between text, parenthesis, commas etc.

so match

" w o r ds ( 345 ) 3 45 other wor ds, aks "

and

"words(345)345otherwords,aks"

and

"words (345) 345 otherwords, aks"

etc. I know I can put a /s* between every character in the expression, is there an easier way? I looked through the modifiers and couldn't find one.

In reply to Regexp to match regardless of whitespace by austinj

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