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Can I use a javascript regex to count the number of whitespace characters before the first text character in the string? I only care if there are 0, 1, and 2+.
My current working solution is to have three regexes and just use match to determine the 0,1, or 2+ category(separate pattern for each), but Im looking for a more elegant solution.
Is it even possible to count patterns with regex? I could use a non-greedy grouping and count the length I guess….
This regex matches between 0 and 2 whitespace characters at the beginning of a string.