What is the regular exp for a text that can’t contain any special characters except space?
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What is the regular exp for a text that can’t contain any special characters except space?
Because Prajeesh only wants to match spaces, \s will not suffice as it matches all whitespace characters including line breaks and tabs.
A character set that should universally work across all RegEx parsers is:
Further control depends on your needs. Word boundaries, multi-line support, etc… I would recommend visiting Regex Library which also has some links to various tutorials on how Regular Expression Parsing works.