PatternRegex
Find repeated spaces
Catch double and triple spaces left behind by copy-paste or old typewriter habits, so prose reads clean instead of gappy.
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Matches
- Hello world
- Too many spaces
Doesn’t match
- Single spaced text here
- Tabs are not spaces
Why it’s written this way
The pattern is a literal space with the {2,} quantifier, so it matches any run of two or more consecutive spaces without caring what surrounds them.
It carries no anchors, so it fires anywhere in the text — mid-sentence, at the start of a line, or between words — which is exactly what you want when hunting formatting noise across a whole document.
Edge cases to know
- →It ignores tabs entirely — a tab used for alignment won't trip this pattern the way a stray double space will.
- →Two spaces inside a code block or a Markdown table, where they can be meaningful, get flagged the same as an accidental double space in prose.