Regex to split at >2 spaces or tabs

Question

I'm trying to create a a regex that matches 2 or more spaces, or tabs, basically a combination of text.split(" ") and text.split("\t"). How do I create it?

My attempt: (but it doesn't work)

text.split(new RegExp("[  |\t]"))

Edit: This splits at spaces/tabs but I need to split at 2 spaces or more..

text.split("\\s+");

Naga Harish M · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-10T10:43:19.660

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\s{2,}

You can try in this way...! \s{2,} means 2 or more

I got this idea from this replace post Regex to replace multiple spaces with a single space

Demo: http://jsbin.com/akubed/1/edit

I agree with @Will comment - Add Tab space also

\s{2,}|\t

edited May 10 '19 at 10:43

answered Oct 15 '12 at 05:14

Naga Harish M

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I was using this but it didn't worked for one tab. Had do switch to `\s{2,}|\t`. I guess it is correct, since i had only a single tab. – Will Jan 12 '15 at 18:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '17 at 11:23

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String s="This      is      test";
    String [] as=s.split("\\t{2,}");
    for(int i=0;i<as.length;i++)
    System.out.println(as[i]);

This works for me.

answered Sep 01 '17 at 11:23

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Arno.bln · Answer 3 · 2022-07-17T15:25:08.773

I would suggest my function below. It separates every word, independent from any amount of spaces/tabs.

const filterWords = (text) => {
    const wordList = text.split(" ");
    let trimmedWordList = [];

    for (let index = 0; index < wordList.length; index++) {
        trimmedWordList.push(wordList[index].trim());
    }

    return trimmedWordList.filter(function (e) {
        return e !== "";
    });
}

console.log(filterWords("    This       is a demo      text"));

Regex to split at >2 spaces or tabs

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