In my string, there is a character that I cannot identify that seems to be a space (Regex)

Question

I have a string that I need to parse using regex. This string is:

http://carto1.wallonie.be/documents/terrils/fiche_terril.idc?TERRIL_id=1 Crachet 7/12

What I try to do is to separate the url and the comment, so I tried:

(\S+)\s(.+) but as result, I get:

$2 = > 7/12

So, it seem that first character is not a space!

I tried to replace \s by 'X' and got

http://carto1.wallonie.be/documents/terrils/fiche_terril.idc?TERRIL_id=1 CrachetX7/12

I am sure to have something strange.

I tried to replace every character by 'X' (\n, \t, etc.) but cannot find what is this "space lookalike"

How can I identify this character and split my string?

EDIT:

According to the Pipes documentation, it looks like it uses fairly standard regex syntax.

Some tests:

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and

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What language? Please tag it. Your regex works perfectly fine in perl, for example. — Brian Roach, Sep 29 '11 at 16:20
Your pipes example ... works fine. It shows `title` as `Crachet 7/12` (?) — Brian Roach, Sep 29 '11 at 16:27
In your [previous question](http://stackoverflow.com/q/7596250/20670), `\S+` matched the part up to the first space before `Crachet` correctly as evidenced by the second screenshot. So what did change in-between? — Tim Pietzcker, Sep 29 '11 at 16:28
It worked only for the first one... I need a few minuts of reflexion to put all the information together.. Thank a lot for your help. — Waza_Be, Sep 29 '11 at 16:32
You still haven't anchored the regex to the start of the line (`^` anchor) or used the multiline modifier (`m`) --> `^(\S+)...` and check the `m` checkbox. — Tim Pietzcker, Sep 29 '11 at 16:34
Ok, now \S+ is working fine! Just need the opposite of (\S+), so I can extract the other filed. Please post in answer, so I can accept it ;-) — Waza_Be, Sep 29 '11 at 16:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 29 '11 at 16:49

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Try the regex

^(\S+)\s+(.*)$

with the g and m modifier checkboxes checked.

answered Sep 29 '11 at 16:49

Tim Pietzcker

g had not to be checked, gave errors when multiple words at second part. ;-) – Waza_Be Sep 29 '11 at 17:01

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