|
For information on the programming language
Whitespace, see Whitespace programming
language.
In computer science, a whitespace (or a
whitespace character) is any character which does not display itself but does take up space. For example, the
character symbol " ", which is a blank space.
Whitespaces are generated by the space
bar or the tab key; depending on context, a line-break generated by the return or enter key may be considered whitespace as well.
Whitespace can also refer to a series of whitespace characters. Within computer code, the size of whitespace is generally ignored by free-form languages. In the Python programming language whitespace and indentation are used for syntactical purposes.
In many programming languages abundant use of whitespace, especially trailing whitespace at the end of lines, is
considered a nuisance.
[ \t]+ is a regular expression that matches
whitespace.
|