RegEx validation Issue for allowing multiple whitespaces [duplicate] - javascript

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I have a requirement to do a field validation using regEx. The requirement is not to have any special characters. It is working for me for a single white space, but not for multiple white spaces. It does not work if there is a white space at the beginning. Can you please help me with this?
This is what I used:
^(\w+ ?)*$

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^[\w ]*$
The ^ and $ are anchors for the start/end of the string, the [...] is called a character class and would allow only [A-Za-z0-9_ ]. The * is a quantifier and means zero or more times, thus the expression would also allow an empty string. If this is not what you want, change it to + instead of the *. Please note that this would also allow a string with only spaces (it really depends on what you want).

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I should allow 2 different input strings formats, with each their own validation.
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This means that if the first character is a letter, I should validate for ^[a-zA-Z]{2}\d{16}$. If the first character is numeric, I should validate for d{16}.
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I tried to write it in an conditional regex
JavaScript doesn't support regular expression conditional syntax, so (?ifthen|else) doesn't work in JavaScript.
This means that if the first character is a letter, I should validate for ^[a-zA-Z]{2}\d{16}$. If the first character is numeric, I should validate for d{16}.
Since the \d{16} part is the same, you can just make the [a-zA-Z]{2} part optional:
/^(?:[a-zA-Z]{2})?\d{16}$/
That uses a non-capturing group around the [a-zA-Z]{2} and makes the entire group optional via the ? after it.
If the validation were different (say, maybe the version with the letters at the start only does \d{14}), you could use an alternation:
/^(?:[a-zA-Z]{2}\d{14}|\d{16})$/
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But in your specific case, you don't need that.

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I want to know the regular expression which allows the combination of alphabets and space but it shouldn't allow only the spaces.
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