How to completely ignore linebreak and tab in RegEx?

Question

Is there any way to completely ignore line break and tab characters etc. in RegEx? For instance, the line break and tab characters could be found anywhere and in any order

Answer 1

There is no way to "ignore" any type of character with regex. You can ignore letter case, but that's about it.

Your best bet is to use \s+ where you would expect some type of whitespace. The \s class will match any whitespace, including newlines, carriage returns, tabs, and spaces, and this will make your regex pattern look a lot nicer.