regex to match trailing whitespace, but not lines which are entirely whitespace (indent placeholders
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I've been trying to construct a ruby regex which matches trailing spaces - but not indentation placeholders - so I can gsub them out.
I had this /\b[\t ]+$/ and it was working a treat until I realised it only works when the line ends are [a-zA-Z]. :-( So I evolved it into this /(?!^[\t ]+)[\t ]+$/ and it seems like it's getting better, but it still doesn't work properly. I've spent hours trying to get this to work to no avail. Please help.
Here's some text test so it's easy to throw into Rubular, but the indent lines are getting stripped so it'll need a few spaces and/or tabs. Once lines 3 & 4 have spaces back in, it shouldn't match on lines 3-5, 7, 9.
some test test
some test test
some other test (text)
some other test (text)
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and this ;
and this ;
Alternatively, is there an simpler / more elegant way to do this?
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