white space
- Space characters, tab characters, form-feed characters,
and new-line characters.
- A sequence of one or more characters that belong
to the space character class as defined via the LC_CTYPE category in the
current locale. In the POSIX locale, white space consists of one or more
blank characters (space and tab characters), new-line characters, carriage-return
characters, form-feed characters, and vertical-tab characters. X/Open.
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