Re: how to find spaces with a regex?

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• Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:11:29 -0400
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On February 18, 2004 11:28 pm, Trevor Smith wrote:

> can NOT figure out how to use a regex to search for multiple spaces -- for

Sorry, I figured it out.

   grep ' {1,}' filename

does not work

   grep ' \{1,\}' filename

does work. I was forgetting to escape the { and } characters.

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