js regex \s+ meaning

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// \s+ matches whitespace characters (multiple characters such as spaces, tabs, line breaks)

const text = '1.  Example    text...';
const regex = /\s+/g;

const result = text.match(regex);

if (result) {
    console.log(result); // ['  ','    ']
}

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// '\S+' matches any non-whitespace characters
// multiple characters that are not: spaces, tabs, line breaks

const text = 'Example text\n	...';
const regex = /\S+/g;

const result = text.match(regex);

if (result) {
    console.log(result); // ['Example','text','...']
}