regular expression for anything but an empty string

Question

Is it possible to use a regular expression to detect anything that is NOT an \"empty string\" like this:

string s1 = \"\";
string s2 = \" \";
string s3 = \"          


        

Answer 1

What about?

/.*\S.*/

This means

/ = delimiter
.* = zero or more of anything but newline
\S = anything except a whitespace (newline, tab, space)

so you get
match anything but newline + something not whitespace + anything but newline