Re: Space in regex

The underscore plus alphanumeric are included in \w, so to get a regex such as you want: [\w\s\.\-&\']+ You should escape the dot because the unescaped dot stands for any single character, which is why .* stands for any and all characters. Dotan Cohen wrote:

I'm trying to match alphanumeric characters, some common symbols, and spaces. Why does this NOT match strings containing spaces?: [A-Za-z0-9\'.&-:underscore::space:] I've also tried these, that also fail to match strings containing spaces: [A-Za-z0-9\'.&- :underscore:] [A-Z a-z0-9\'.&-:underscore:] [:space:A-Za-z0-9\'.&-:underscore:] All these regexes match strings containing the specified characters, but none of them match strings with spaces. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/ http://technology-sleuth.com/

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