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using String.matches("\\S") does not work with more than one character

800348Aug 15 2008 — edited Aug 15 2008

This is a rather simple question,

Why is it that doing

System.out.print("b".matches("\\S")); produces true

and

System.out.print("ba".matches("\\S")); produces false?

using \S should return true if there are any non whitespace characters in the string but why is the result affected by how many characters are in the string?

I just want to check if a string (of any length) contains non whitespace characters.

Thanks

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