Check if a string has white space

Question

I\'m trying to check if a string has white space. I found this function but it doesn\'t seem to be working:

function hasWhiteSpace(s) 
{
            


        

Answer 1

A few others have posted answers. There are some obvious problems, like it returns false when the Regex passes, and the ^ and $ operators indicate start/end, whereas the question is looking for has (any) whitespace, and not: only contains whitespace (which the regex is checking).

Besides that, the issue is just a typo.

Change this...

var reWhiteSpace = new RegExp("/^\s+$/");

To this...

var reWhiteSpace = new RegExp("\\s+");

When using a regex within RegExp(), you must do the two following things...

• Omit starting and ending / brackets.
• Double-escape all sequences code, i.e., \\s in place of \s, etc.

Full working demo from source code....

$(document).ready(function(e) { function hasWhiteSpace(s) {
        var reWhiteSpace = new RegExp("\\s+");
    
        // Check for white space
        if (reWhiteSpace.test(s)) {
            //alert("Please Check Your Fields For Spaces");
            return 'true';
        }
    
        return 'false';
    }
  
  $('#whitespace1').html(hasWhiteSpace(' '));
  $('#whitespace2').html(hasWhiteSpace('123'));
});

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"123":