Regex Kata — Remove Whitespace in Markdown Hypertext
usecase
The concern is documenting the need to remove whitespace with regex
1. solution
- some people dislike regex for its conciseness and lack of expressive power but once I got used to it, I see problems and solutions in unusual places!
| STEP# | CODE | COMMENT |
|---|---|---|
| FIND | ||
| 01 | ( |
open capture group |
| 02 | \w |
any part of the word |
| 03 | ) |
close capture group |
| 04 | \s |
followed by whitespace |
| 05 | + |
one or more instances of whitespace |
| 06 | \] |
followed by closing square bracket ] |
| REPLACE | `` | |
| 07 | $1 |
letter captured with capture group |
| 08 | ] |
immediately followed by closing square bracket |
- find:
(\w)\s+\] - replace with
$1]
