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id: 587d7db9367417b2b2512ba4
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title: Match Non-Whitespace Characters
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challengeType: 1
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forumTopicId: 18210
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dashedName: match-non-whitespace-characters
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---
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# --description--
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You learned about searching for whitespace using `\s`, with a lowercase `s`. You can also search for everything except whitespace.
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Search for non-whitespace using `\S`, which is an uppercase `s`. This pattern will not match whitespace, carriage return, tab, form feed, and new line characters. You can think of it being similar to the character class `[^ \r\t\f\n\v]`.
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```js
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let whiteSpace = "Whitespace. Whitespace everywhere!"
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let nonSpaceRegex = /\S/g;
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whiteSpace.match(nonSpaceRegex).length;
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```
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The value returned by the `.length` method would be `32`.
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# --instructions--
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Change the regex `countNonWhiteSpace` to look for multiple non-whitespace characters in a string.
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# --hints--
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Your regex should use the global flag.
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```js
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assert(countNonWhiteSpace.global);
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```
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Your regex should use the shorthand character `\S` to match all non-whitespace characters.
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```js
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assert(/\\S/.test(countNonWhiteSpace.source));
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```
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Your regex should find 35 non-spaces in the string `Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.`
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```js
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assert(
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'Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.'.match(countNonWhiteSpace)
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.length == 35
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);
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```
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Your regex should find 23 non-spaces in the string `Space: the final frontier.`
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```js
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assert('Space: the final frontier.'.match(countNonWhiteSpace).length == 23);
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```
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Your regex should find 21 non-spaces in the string `MindYourPersonalSpace`
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```js
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assert('MindYourPersonalSpace'.match(countNonWhiteSpace).length == 21);
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```
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# --seed--
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## --seed-contents--
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```js
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let sample = "Whitespace is important in separating words";
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let countNonWhiteSpace = /change/; // Change this line
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let result = sample.match(countNonWhiteSpace);
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```
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# --solutions--
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```js
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let sample = "Whitespace is important in separating words";
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let countNonWhiteSpace = /\S/g; // Change this line
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let result = sample.match(countNonWhiteSpace);
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```
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