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Expand Up @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ var out = replace( str, reWhitespace.REGEXP_CAPTURE, '$1$1' );

- Matches one related white space character without the Unicode character property "WSpace=Y" (zero width non-breaking space which was deprecated as of Unicode 3.2).

- Why not just use `\\s`? While `\\s` is convenient, this package provides an explicit, versioned set of Unicode whitespace code points (plus `U+FEFF` for historical reasons) and lets you consistently generate expressions with user-supplied flags and optional capture groups. Using an explicit character class can be helpful if you want to avoid differences across JavaScript engines/spec interpretations (e.g., around Unicode mode and what counts as whitespace).

- The `REGEXP` regular expression is defined as

```text
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