regular expression craziness

jayritchie · Post by **jayritchie** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:46 pm

I'm simply trying to search for white space using \s. Unfortunately, it's selecting "\" and "s". What's going on? I've had other weird problems too, but this one is a big problem right now. I need to replace all white space with tabs.

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:55 pm

Try using [[:space:]] - HTH

jayritchie · Post by **jayritchie** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:06 pm

Thanks for the quick reply. That expression finds single spaces. How about treating consecutive spaces as one match? I tried [[:space:]]* and putting the * in various places but that didn't work.

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:15 pm

[[:space:]]+ works for me

jayritchie · Post by **jayritchie** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:51 pm

Thanks, that worked.