i am completely new to regular expressions and am trying to create a regular expression in flex for a validation.

using a regular expression, i am going to validate that the user input does NOT contain any white-space and consists of only characters and digits... starting with digit.

so far i have:

expression="[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*"

this correctly checks for user input to start with a character followed by a possible digit, but this does not check if there is white space...(in my tests if user input has a space this input will pass through validation - this is not desired) can someone tell me how i can modify this expression to ensure that user input with whitespace is flagged as invalid?