Water 5-Common Data Types-String Regex

Pattern to match whitespace characters

Contract
Parameter key	Default value	Type
a_type	type.<one_of <char " "/> <char 9/> <char 11/> <char 10/> <char 12/> <char 13/>/>	one_of
regex_string	"\s"	string

Water Contract

<class pattern.whitespace
  a_type        =<type.one_of <char " "/> <char "&amp;#9;"/> <char "&amp;#11;"/> <char "
"/> <char "&amp;#12;"/> <char "&amp;#13;"/>/>
  regex_string  ="\s"=string
  _native_object=<ja.org.apache.regexp.RE/>
/>

See also: is_type_for, get_string_segments, replace_string_segments, string_segment, char, alphanumeric, whitespace_not

Returns a pattern with a regex_string field set to " \s ". This pattern is useful for matching whitespace characters in the target string.

Example: String contains whitespace characters

<pattern  pattern.<one_or_more pattern.whitespace /> />.
<is_type_for <join char.tab "Abc" char.carriage_return char.newline /> />

true

Example: Does not contain whitespace characters

<pattern pattern.<one_or_more pattern.whitespace /> />.
<is_type_for "Abc123!@#" />

false