How to search Unicode whitespace char in Lua
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How to search Unicode whitespace char in Lua
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--table to be filled
local whitespace = {0x9, 0xA, 0xB, 0xC, 0xD, 0x20, 0x85, 0xA0, 0x1680, 0x2000, 0x2001}
local str = 'hello\u{2000}world\n'
for _, c in utf8.codes(str) do
for _, v in ipairs(whitespace) do
if c == v then
print 'whitespace found'
end
end
end