You can use the built-in String method match()
with a regular expression to find the number of spaces preceding the first character in a JavaScript string. Here's an example:
let str = " Hello World!";
let numSpaces = str.match(/^\s*/)[0].length;
console.log(numSpaces); // outputs 4
In this example, the regular expression ^\s*
matches any number of white space characters (\s*
) at the beginning of the string (^
). The match()
method returns an array containing the matched substring(s). We access the first element of the array ([0]
) and get its length to determine the number of spaces.
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Last updated: Jun 30 '23
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