I am trying to regex (ECMAscript) check if a string has three or more spaces in it. Essentially, I want the minimum number of spaces to be 3 before it matches. Here are some examples;
"Microsoft and Apple" This would NOT match
"The quick brown fox" This WOULD match
"lots of spaces in this sentence" This WOULD match
This is the best I have so far;
/[\s]{3,}/gm
If the 'string' can contain everything (characters and numbers and special chars):
/^((.*?)? (.*?)?){3,}?$/gm
This may not be optimally efficient, but you could split on spaces and then check the resulting length:
const x = [
"Microsoft and Apple",
"The quick brown fox",
"lots of spaces in this sentence",
]
x.forEach(s => console.log(s, s.split(' ').length > 3))Put three spaces in the regex, and match anything else around them
.* .* .* .*