Question

I have the following String

“Sample”

however in some occurences there may be one or more spaces in the beginning:

” Sample” or ” Sample”

Without using trim, what regular expression can I use to match if there is one? I am using (\s+) for the current String. I want the space to be included as part of the same one group.

Answer 1

You don’t need regular expressions:

s = " Sample"
if s[0] == ' ':
    # do something
else:
    # do something else

But if you want regex:

import re
s = ' Sample'
if re.match(r"\s+.+", s):
   # found space at beginning, do something