how to find spaces with a regex?

[Vincent]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:11:29 -0400
Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com> wrote:

> On February 18, 2004 11:28 pm, Trevor Smith wrote:
> 
> > can NOT figure out how to use a regex to search for multiple spaces -- for
> 
> Sorry, I figured it out.
> 
>    grep ' {1,}' filename
> 
> does not work
> 
>    grep ' \{1,\}' filename
> 
> does work. I was forgetting to escape the { and } characters.
> 
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for future reference \s means space \t means tab \S means NON-whitespace
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