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---
id: 587d7db8367417b2b2512ba3
title: Match Whitespace
challengeType: 1
forumTopicId: 301359
dashedName: match-whitespace
---
# --description--
The challenges so far have covered matching letters of the alphabet and numbers. You can also match the whitespace or spaces between letters.
You can search for whitespace using `\s`, which is a lowercase `s`. This pattern not only matches whitespace, but also carriage return, tab, form feed, and new line characters. You can think of it as similar to the character class `[ \r\t\f\n\v]`.
```js
let whiteSpace = "Whitespace. Whitespace everywhere!"
let spaceRegex = /\s/g;
whiteSpace.match(spaceRegex);
```
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This `match` call would return `[" ", " "]`.
# --instructions--
Change the regex `countWhiteSpace` to look for multiple whitespace characters in a string.
# --hints--
Your regex should use the global flag.
```js
assert(countWhiteSpace.global);
```
Your regex should use the shorthand character `\s` to match all whitespace characters.
```js
assert(/\\s/.test(countWhiteSpace.source));
```
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Your regex should find eight spaces in the string `Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.`
```js
assert(
'Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.'.match(countWhiteSpace).length ==
8
);
```
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Your regex should find three spaces in the string `Space: the final frontier.`
```js
assert('Space: the final frontier.'.match(countWhiteSpace).length == 3);
```
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Your regex should find no spaces in the string `MindYourPersonalSpace`
```js
assert('MindYourPersonalSpace'.match(countWhiteSpace) == null);
```
# --seed--
## --seed-contents--
```js
let sample = "Whitespace is important in separating words";
let countWhiteSpace = /change/; // Change this line
let result = sample.match(countWhiteSpace);
```
# --solutions--
```js
let sample = "Whitespace is important in separating words";
let countWhiteSpace = /\s/g;
let result = sample.match(countWhiteSpace);
```