regex to match at least a character or a space

Question

I am using following regex to find out to detect atleast one character.

/\b([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,})$/

Right now I need to detect space also.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can detect space in Regex by using \\s . This token will catch any space in the string. In your regex, You can include this token \\s inside the brackets [] .

Your regex has also a-zA-Z0-9_ to catch any number, uppercase letters, lower case letters, or underscore _ . All of these can be caught using one single token that is designed to catch such characters which is \\w . This is optional, but it will help shorten your Regex to make the tokens between brackets only [\\s\\w] .

Your Regex can be:

/\b([\s\w]{1,})$/