Question

What is the best way to check if a string contains only whitespace?

The string is allowed to contain characters combined with whitespace, but not just whitespace.

Answer 1

Instead of checking the entire string to see if there’s only whitespace, just check to see if there’s at least one character of non whitespace:

if (/\S/.test(myString)) {
    // string is not empty and not just whitespace
}